Another report states that he passed away in Dhu al-Ḥijjah, 392 AH, and vast crowds joined his funeral procession.

412 – al-Asilī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm
The imam, senior authority of the Mālikī school, and leading scholar of al-Andalus: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Asilī.

He was raised in Asilah on the frontier and pursued his legal training in Córdoba.

He heard hadith from Ibn al-Mashshāṭ, Ibn al-Salīm the judge, Wahb ibn Masarrah—whom he encountered in Wādī al-Ḥijārah—Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Dhuhlī, Ibn Ḥayyūyah, Abū Isḥāq ibn Shaʿbān, and several other teachers in Egypt.

In Mecca he transcribed Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī from the jurist Abū Zayd. He later caught up with Abū Bakr al-Ājurrī, and in Baghdad studied under Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Ibn al-Ṣawwāf, and the judge al-Abharī.

He composed a work entitled Dalāʾil on the points of disagreement among Mālik, Abū Ḥanīfah, and al-Shāfiʿī.

Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ relates that al-Dāraquṭnī said: “Abū Muḥammad al-Asilī narrated to me, and I have never met his equal.”

ʿIyāḍ adds: He was one of the preservers of Mālik’s doctrine, deeply knowledgeable in hadith, its hidden flaws, and its transmitters. He held that the prohibition of approaching women from the rear is one of dislike rather than absolute ban, rejected excessive claims regarding miracles of the saints, yet affirmed those that are soundly established.

He served as judge in Saragossa.

ʿIyāḍ continues: He was the counterpart of Ibn Abī Zayd in al-Qayrawān, following his method and guidance, though he possessed a certain brusqueness that made people