Sa'id ibn Nasr ibn Abi al-Fath

Abu 'Uthman Sa'id b. Nasr, known as Ibn Abi al-Fath, was one of the Cordoban teachers from whom Ibn 'Abd al-Barr transmitted most, and the source of the Muwatta' recension on which he built al-Tamhid. ^{1 2} The Tamhid's editor gives his dates as 315–395 AH, as the copy used reads them. ¹

His father was among the senior clients favoured by 'Abd al-Rahman al-Nasir, as al-Humaydi reports from Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, who mentioned and praised him. ¹

He transmitted from him Qasim b. Asbagh's al-Mujtaba, from Qasim. ¹ Sa'id also gave him Yahya b. Yahya al-Laythi's recension of the Muwatta' by dictation, reading from his own copy while Ibn 'Abd al-Barr followed in his, from Qasim b. Asbagh and Wahb b. Masarra, from Muhammad b. Waddah, from Yahya, from Malik — the first of the routes to the Muwatta' that Ibn 'Abd al-Barr lists in the introduction to the Tamhid. ²