al-Amālī; and the chief of Herāt as well as its leading traditionist, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Abī Dhuhl al-Ḍabbī; and the judge Abū al-Qāsim Bishr ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn al-Naysābūrī, an associate of Ibn Khuzaymah.
268 – Ibn al-Bājī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Lakhmī
The erudite scholar, ḥāfiẓ, and foremost muḥaddith of al-Andalus: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Sharīʿah al-Lakhmī of Seville, widely known as Ibn al-Bājī.
Born: 291 AH.
He heard ḥadith from: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Qawq (1), ʿAbd Allah ibn Yūnus al-Qabrī, the ascetic Sayyid Abīhi, Saʿīd ibn Jābir al-Ishbīlī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Lubābah, Aslam ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Muḥammad ibn Fuṭays, and others of their tier.
Ibn al-Farḍī said, “He was a ḥāfiẓ of exacting precision; I have not met anyone his equal in accuracy. I heard a great deal from him in Córdoba and traveled to him in Seville twice. Many people narrated extensively from him. He died in Ramaḍān of the year 378 AH, at the age of eighty-seven (2).”
I add: Among those who transmitted from him were his son Abū ʿUmar, and Ḥammām ibn Aḥmad al-Qāḍī, and he related, on the authority of al-Qabrī, the Musannaf of Ibn Abī Shaybah.