He also learned the Qurʾānic modes of recitation from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Azraq and al-ʿAbbās b. al-Faḍl b. Shādhān. He then travelled to Baghdad, sat with Ibn Mujāhid, engaged him in scholarly discussion, and for many years held the foremost seat for teaching recitation.

Al-Khalīlī recorded his biography, transmitted from him, and regarded him as one of his senior teachers. He wrote: “He died in Ramadan of the year 381 AH,” and also, “He was born in 283 AH.”

298 – Ibn Yabqā, Muḥammad b. Yabqā b. Zarb al-Qurṭubī *

The distinguished scholar and leading authority of the Mālikī school: Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Yabqā b. Zarb b. Yazīd al-Qurṭubī, the jurist. He was astonishing in his mastery of the school’s positions.

He heard hadith from Qāsim b. Aṣbagh and Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Dulaym, and he studied jurisprudence under al-Luʾluʾī.

The judge Ibn al-Salīm used to say, “Had Ibn al-Qāsim seen you, he would have marveled at you.”

He authored a refutation of Ibn Masarra along with several other works, and he was endowed with numerous virtues.

He died in Ramadan of the year 381 AH.