And it is also said that Yaʿqūb remained in Kāfūr’s company right up to the day the latter died. Yaʿqūb embraced Islam in the year 356 AH; he thereafter held fast to virtue and the prescribed prayers. Ibn Hinzāba later arrested him, but he ransomed himself with money and was released.

He was appointed vizier in 368 AH and became one of the noblest, most dignified, generous, and forbearing ministers of state. Al-ʿAlawī relates: “I saw Yaʿqūb in Kāfūr’s presence; when he had gone, Kāfūr said to me, ‘What a minister beats within that breast!’ (1).”

328 – al-Qalaʿī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim*
The imam, ḥadith master, meticulous scholar, ascetic, exemplar, and combatant in the path of God: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ḥazm al-Andalusī, known as al-Qalaʿī.

He studied under Wahb ibn Masarra, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Ward, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAqab al-Dimashqī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Hujaymī, Abū Jaʿfar ibn Duḥaym al-Shaybānī, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and their contemporaries, gathering a vast store of traditions and preserving them with care.

Ibn al-Faradī said, “I received from him a great deal of knowledge.”

Those who studied with him include: Aḥmad ibn ʿAwn Allāh, Ibn Mufarrij the judge, and ʿAbbās ibn