24 – Ibn Barṭāl, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā al-Tamīmī
The judge, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī, a Córdoban Mālikī jurist better known as Ibn Barṭāl.
He was born in 299 AH.
He heard ḥadith from the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Jabbāb, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā, Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh, Ibrāhīm ibn Firās of Mecca, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Jirāb (1), ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khayyāsh, and several others.
He held the offices of preacher and chief judge of the community until advancing age impaired his faculties, whereupon Abū ʿĀmir al-Ḥājib transferred him from the judiciary to a ministerial position (2).
Al-Faraḍī and Sirāj ibn ʿAbd Allāh, among others, narrated from him, and he lived to a great age.
He performed the pilgrimage in 341 AH and was the sole transmitter of a number of highly elevated isnāds.
He died in 394 AH at the age of ninety-five.
25 – Ibn ʿAbdūs, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Naysābūrī
The imām: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdūs ibn Aḥmad al-Naysābūrī, the grammarian and jurist.