Ibn al-Faraḍī and many others transmitted from him, and he lived to a ripe old age.

Al-Quṭiyyah (1) is Sarah bint al-Mundhir ibn Jaṭsiyyah (2), one of the Gothic princesses. The Goths were a people who inhabited the Iberian Peninsula and are said to descend from Qūṭ ibn Ḥām ibn Noah—peace be upon him. She was the grandmother of his grandfather. Sarah travelled to Syria to complain of the injustice of her uncle Arṭiyās; there, ‘Īsā ibn Muzāḥim, a client of ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz, married her and later journeyed with her to al-Andalus. He was the grandfather of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ‘Īsā.

Indeed, Abū Bakr was a leading authority in language and grammar, a meticulous ḥadīth memorizer, and a brilliant historian, though he was not outstanding in the subsidiary legal disciplines (furūʿ).

He authored Taṣārīf al-Afʿāl, producing it with great precision, and another treatise on the maqṣūr and mamdūd.

He was devoted to worship, asceticism, and renunciation. He also composed delicate poetry (3) but abandoned verse out of scrupulous piety.

Abū ‘Alī al-Qālī held him in the highest esteem.

He compiled a History of the people of al-Andalus, which he usually dictated from memory.

He died in Rabī‘ al-Awwal, 367 AH.

154 – Ibn Baqiyyah, Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-‘Irāqī *

The grand vizier, supporter of the Dawlah, Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Baqiyyah ibn