It is also said that the prayer of the ascetic Abū Bakr ibn al-Ḥaramī took effect against him: the latter had once emptied out his wines, and so Allah never let him gain power over him (1).

23 – Ibn Dayfūn, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Lakhmī of Córdoba

The shaykh, ḥadith scholar, and centenarian: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Dayfūn al-Lakhmī, of Córdoba, known as “the Blacksmith” (2).

He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūnus al-Qabrī, Aḥmad ibn Ziyād, and Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh. Later, in 339 AH, he performed the pilgrimage and witnessed the Black Stone being returned to its place.

He also studied under Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Nasāʾī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Dahmān al-Miṣṣīṣī—whom he met in Tripoli—and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Masrūr al-Qayrawānī.

He was righteous and deemed reliable; the last of his colleagues to pass away was Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr.

Abū al-Walīd ibn al-Farāḍī (3) said: “He reached an advanced age, and in his later years became confused about some material that was read to him which he had not actually heard; he lacked precision. He told me he had been born in 303 AH and died in Shawwāl 394 AH.”

I say: He was the last person in al-Andalus to transmit ḥadith from al-Qabrī and Ibn al-Aʿrābī.