and fifty and three hundred (1)—that is, 357 AH.

I say: Among those who transmitted from him was Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Walīd ibn Saʿd al-Anṣārī, the jurist and teacher of Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥaṭṭāb al-Rāzī of Alexandria.

He was also called “al-Qābisī,” for his uncle used to bind his turban in the tight Qābis manner, and the nickname stuck for that reason (2).

The Qāḍī of Damascus, ʿIlm al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Miṣrī, informed us, saying: Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Bāhī told us; ʿUthmān ibn Ḥasan the philologist told us; Khalaf ibn ʿAbd al-Malik the ḥāfiẓ told us; Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAttāb told us; Ḥātim ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Abū l-Ḥasan al-Qābisī informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Masrūr informed us; Aḥmad ibn Abī Sulaymān informed us; Sahnūn ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us; Mālik narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qusayṭ, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thawbān, from his mother, from ʿĀʾishah:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded that we make use of the skins of carrion once they have been tanned.” (3)

Those who died in the same year as al-Qābisī include Ibn al-Bāqillānī the theologian (4) and Aḥmad ibn Firās.