Al-Idrīsī said, “It is related that in the closing years of his life he became reckless in his narrations (1).
44 – al-Tahartī, Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
The shaykh, hadith scholar, and musnid of al-Andalus: Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī, al-Tahartī, al-Maghribī, the cloth-merchant.
Birth: He was born in Tāhart in the year 309 AH.
His father later brought him to Córdoba, where he settled, and in 334 AH he began the pursuit of hadith. He heard from Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh, Abū ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Dulaym (2), Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Rifāʿa, Wahb ibn Masarra, Muḥammad ibn Muʿāwiya al-Umayyad, and Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl al-Dīnawarī.
Transmitters from him include Ibn al-Farāḍī, Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, and a number of others.
He was known for asceticism, devoted worship, and reserve, together with reliability and knowledge (3).
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhira of 395 AH at the age of eighty-six.