Yūsuf ibn Naṣr al-Qurṭubī, better known as Ibn al-Faradī, author of Tārīkh al-Andalusiyyīn (History of the Andalusians) (1).
He studied under Abū Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn Allāh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mufarrij, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qāsim, ʿAbbās ibn Aṣbagh, Khalaf ibn al-Qāsim, and many others.
After performing the pilgrimage he reported hadith from Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muhandis, Yūsuf ibn al-Dakhīl, al-Ḥasan ibn Ismāʿīl (2) the goldsmith, Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd, Aḥmad ibn Raḥmūn, and Aḥmad ibn Naṣr al-Dāwūdī.
Among his writings are Akhbār Shuʿarāʾ al-Andalus (Accounts of the Andalusian Poets), a treatise on al-Muʾtalif wa’l-Mukhtalif (Homonymous Names), and Mushtabih al-Nisba (Confusable Nisbas).
Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr transmitted from him and said:
“He was a jurist and ḥāfiẓ, well-versed in every field of knowledge related to hadith and the assessment of transmitters. I studied alongside him with most of my teachers. He was delightful in companionship and gracious in social dealings. The Berbers killed him, and his body lay in his house for three days (3).”