as well as al-Ṣaffār of Ḥimṣ, Ḥamzah al-Kinānī, and al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Farāʾiḍī of Damascus.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Naṣr al-Sijzī and Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥabbāl. Al-Ḥabbāl heard from him the Prophetic biography, namely Ibn Hishām’s revised edition. Yet al-Ḥabbāl is known only for his transmission of the Sīra from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Naḥḥās.
Ibn Marzūq died in 418 AH.
257 – Ibn al-Maghribī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Miṣrī *
The vizier, man of letters, and eloquent orator: Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn, son of the vizier ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (1) ibn Muḥammad al-Miṣrī, better known as Ibn al-Maghribī.
The Fatimid ruler al-Ḥākim had his father, uncle, and brothers put to death, whereupon he fled and escaped. The Arab chieftain Ḥassān ibn Mufarrij al-Ṭāʾī granted him asylum; in gratitude he composed panegyrics for him and accepted his stipends (2).
He transmitted from the vizier Jaʿfar ibn Hinzāba.
Transmitters from him include his son ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Fāriqī.