Abu ʿAli also attended the recitations of Ibn Shabwayh and Jaʿfar ibn Fannākī.
He died in Shaʿbān, 424 AH.
283 – Ibn Dhunnīn, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Ṣadafī *
The erudite scholar, the exemplar, the devotee: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd ibn Dhunnīn al-Ṣadafī, the Andalusian from Toledo.
He narrated from: his father; ʿAbdūs ibn Muḥammad; Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAyshūn; Abū Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn Allah; Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Mufarrij; and, while in Egypt, from Abū Bakr ibn al-Muhandis, Abū al-Ṭayyib ibn Ghalbūn, and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd al-Washshāʾ. In Mecca he studied with ʿUbayd Allah al-Saqaṭī, and in the Maghrib with Abū ⦗1⦘ Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd, whose company he kept closely.
He returned to his homeland laden with abundant knowledge; the scholars of Toledo transmitted from him copiously, and students travelled to him from every direction, drawn by his learning, God-fearing devotion, ascetic withdrawal, humility, and steadfast adherence ⦗2⦘.
It was said that his supplications were answered.
He was a Sunnī, Atharī, reliable, scrupulous, outspoken in the truth, and he feared no one’s blame when acting for Allah’s sake.
He composed a treatise on commanding the right, and he was