It is also said that Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad al-Sībī (1) narrated from him. According to that report he remained alive until 490 AH.
109 – Ibn Abī Zamanīn, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Murrī *
The Imām, exemplar, and ascetic, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad al-Murrī (2), the Andalusian from Elvira, and shaykh of Córdoba.
In Bajjāna (3) he read, under Saʿīd ibn Faḥlūn, the Mukhtasar of Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam.
He also heard from Muḥammad ibn Muʿāwiya al-Umawī, Aḥmad ibn al-Mutarrif, Aḥmad ibn al-Shāmah, and Wahb ibn Masarra.
In jurisprudence he studied with Isḥāq al-Ṭulayṭulī. Gifted in many disciplines, he acquired a vast share of knowledge, authored works on asceticism and heart-softening exhortations, and composed refined poetry (4).
(1) The nisba derives from Sayb; al-Samani believes it is a village near Qasr Ibn Hubayra (al-Ansab, 7:215).
(*) Principal biographical sources: Jadwat al-Muqtabis, pp. 56-57; Tartib al-Madarik, 4:672-674; Bughyat al-Multamis, pp. 87-88; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 3:1029; al-Ibar, 3:71; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 3:321; al-Dibaj al-Mudhahhab, 2:232-234; Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Mufassirin, p. 34; al-Dawudi, Tabaqat al-Mufassirin, 2:161-162; Tadhkirat al-Nawadir, p. 20; Barnamaj al-Qarawiyyin, p. 24; Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 3:156; Hadiyyat al-Arifin, 2:58; Idah al-Maknun, 1:424; Shajarat al-Nur al-Zakiyya, 1:101.
(2) Ibn Farhun vocalises the name with a damma on the mim and a kasra on the doubled, undotted ra (al-Dibaj al-Mudhahhab, 2:233).
(3) Bijana—initial fath, then shadda with an alif and nun—is a town in al-Andalus belonging to the district of Ilbira. Now in ruins, its people moved to al-Mariya; the two are two farsakhs apart, and Bijana lies one hundred miles from Granada (Mu jam al-Buldan, 1:339).
(4) Al-Humaydi cites a line of his poetry as follows: