Abū ʿAmr—meaning al-Dānī—recited to him in three transmissions and later set them out with their complete chains in his Taysīr. Those who narrated from him include al-Dānī himself and Abū al-Walīd Ibn al-Faraḍī, who said, “I met him in Madīnat al-Turāb.”

Al-Dānī relates that he entered al-Andalus as a merchant in the year 350 AH and then took up residence there (1). He further describes him as a virtuous, eminent, truthful, and precise man, known as Ibn Abī Ghassān.

He once told me, “I remember the very day Ibn Mujāhid died. I studied the Qurʾān, around the year 340 AH, with al-Naqqāsh and remained with him for some time—he was the most generous of people. I heard Sunan Abī Dāwūd from Ibn Dāsa in 338 AH, and I frequented Abū Saʿīd al-Sīrāfī’s sessions, reading several works to him.”

Al-Dānī also records that he died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 413 AH. I add: I did not find him listed among the teachers of Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr or Ibn Ḥazm.

In that same year there also died: Ṣadaqah ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Dulam (2); Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥabīb (3) of Nīshāpūr; ʿAlī ibn Hilāl Ibn al-Bawwāb (4), the master calligrapher; the Shīʿī shaykh al-Mufīd (5), Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān; and Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Jārūdī (6).