Among those who narrated from him were Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Zubaydī and Abū al-Walīd ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Faradī. Abū al-Walīd said, “I wrote down ḥadith from him after he had lost his sight, and he died in 376 AH.” (1) I add: he possessed the soundest chains of transmission in al-Andalus during his day.

269 – Ibn Sabank, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Bajalī
The judge and leading scholar, Abū al-Qāsim ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Khālid ibn Sabank al-Bajalī al-Baghdādī, a descendant of the Companion Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allah (may Allah be pleased with him).
He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Ḥibbān, ʿAbd Allah ibn Isḥāq al-Madā’inī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāghandī, and many others.
Among those who transmitted from him were the judge ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Mālikī, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Aḥmad al-Azhari, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, and others besides.
Al-Khaṭīb said: “He was reliable; he served as acting judge in the Bāshā marketplace. He was born in 291 AH, began hearing ḥadith in 300 AH, and died in 376 AH.”

270 – The Umayyad Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Yaḥyā
The shaykh, traditionist, and scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Yaḥyā al-Umawī— their client from Aleppo— settled in al-Andalus and became its principal musnid.
He received ḥadith from Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ghaḍā’irī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Nayrūz, Makḥūl al-Bayrūtī, Abū al-Jahm ibn Ṭalāb, Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Tarkhumī al-Ḥimṣī, and he visited the amīr al-Mustanṣir, ruler of al-Andalus.