ʿAlī ibn Sharīʿah al-Lakhmī, the Sevillian, widely known as Ibn al-Bājī.

He received from his father (1) everything the latter possessed, among it the Musannaf of Ibn Abī Shaybah, which he transmitted (2) on the authority of al-Qabrī (3), from Baqī ibn Makhlad, from him.

Al-Khawlānī said: “Abū ʿUmar was thoroughly versed in hadith and its various routes—an eminent, celebrated imām. My eyes have never beheld his equal among the hadith scholars for dignity and bearing. He travelled in the company of his son Muḥammad; together they met many distinguished shaykhs. Abū ʿUmar also served for a short time as judge of Seville. We learned a great deal from him. When he died I attended his funeral, which drew an immense crowd, in Muḥarram of the year 396 AH; he was sixty-four years old (4).”

Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: “He had committed to memory the two works on singular hadith expressions (Gharīb al-Ḥadīth) by Abū ʿUbayd and by Ibn Qutaybah. He was consulted about legal rulings when he was only eighteen years old. His father had gathered for him every branch of knowledge, so he had no need of anyone else. Later he travelled and met Abū Bakr al-Muhandis and a group of scholars. He was the jurist of his age, the imām of his time—I have seen no one like him in al-Andalus. Under his supervision I completed a reading of the Musannaf of Ibn Abī Shaybah. He was an imām in both the fundamentals and the derivatives of the law (5).”

41 – Ibn Lāl, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Hamadhānī *
The shaykh, imām, jurist, and hadith scholar, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad