Nasr ibn Ibrahim al-Maqdisi

نصر بن إبراهيم المقدسي

Abu al-Fath Nasr ibn Ibrahim al-Maqdisi, the Shafi'i jurist and ascetic resident in Damascus, author of al-Hujja ala tarik al-mahajja — a work comprising the principles of religion by the rules of the hadith folk; he is the 'shaykh' al-Nawawi meant in his takhrij of the forty-first hadith when he wrote 'we narrated it in the Book of al-Hujja with a sound isnad' (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam p. 824; cf. Siyar a'lam al-nubala' 19/136).