al-Naqqash

Abu Bakr Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Muhammad b. Ziyad, the muqri' known as al-Naqqash — Mosul by origin, Baghdadi by birth and upbringing; versed in recitation, tafsir and lugha, he wrote books including Shifa' al-sudur in tafsir, al-Ishara on gharib al-Qur'an, al-Mawdih on the Qur'an and its meanings, the three mu'jams — great, middle and small — on the readers' names and readings, al-Sab'a bi-'ilaliha, Akhbar al-qussas and Dala'il al-nubuwwa; al-Barqani said: all of al-Naqqash's hadith is munkar and there is no sound hadith in his tafsir. ¹