He was devout and upright, a gifted poet, possessed of elevated chains of transmission and an ample store of narrations, and he was truthful.

Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: “I read to him the Mudawwana, through Ibn Masarra, from Muḥammad ibn Waḍḍāḥ, from its author Sahnūn; I also read the Tafsīr of Ibn ʿUyaynah with his chain via Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh, and he narrated the Muwaṭṭaʾ to us from Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Rifāʿah, from Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-ʿAllāf, from Ibn Bukayr, from Mālik.”

A few months earlier, in the preceding year, the leading Mālikī scholar of al-Andalus, Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Makwī (1)—author of al-Istīʿāb on the school, in one hundred fascicles—had died suddenly at the age of seventy-six. He was a foremost figure in both knowledge and practice.

That same year also saw the passing of the erudite Abū ʿUbayd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Harawī, author of al-Gharībayn, in the month of Rajab; the just judge Hamd (2) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Dimashqī, proprietor of the estate Duwayrat Hamd, who was slain in his own house; the eloquent littérateur Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Bustī; the shaykh of Nīshāpūr, the sayyid Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī (3); and Abū ʿAlī Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khālidī al-Harawī, one of the weak transmitters (4).

91 – al-Ḥinnāʾī, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh *

The shaykh, hadith scholar, and trustworthy narrator: Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hilāl, al-Baghdādī, al-Ḥinnāʾī, the man of letters.