ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Fuṭays (1) ibn Aṣbagh ibn Fuṭays (2), of Córdoba, adherent of the Mālikī school.

He related ḥadith from Abū ʿĪsā al-Laythī, Abū Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn Allāh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mufarrij, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Anṭākī, Abū Muḥammad al-Aṣīlī, Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, and several others.

Al-Ḥasan ibn Rashīq (3), Qāḍī Abū Bakr al-Abharī, and a number of scholars granted him written authorization (ijāzah).

He was a memorizer of ḥadith, an exacting critic, a master evaluator, and a precise verifier—keenly aware of hidden defects and transmitter biographies—while also possessing great strength in jurisprudence and the merits of deeds. He would dictate entirely from memory (4).

Those who transmitted from him include the two Ṣāḥibs, Abū ʿUmar al-Ṭalamankī, Abū ʿUmar ibn Sumayq, Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Abū ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥaddāʾ, Ḥātim ibn Muḥammad, and others.

His writings comprise: The Book of Stories in three volumes; The Occasions of Revelation in one hundred fascicles; The Virtues of the Companions in one hundred fascicles; The Virtues of the Followers in seven volumes; and The Abrogating and the Abrogated—thirty.