—Shaykh al-Islām Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī al-Jurjānī al-Shāfiʿī, the leading figure of the city, its foremost scholar and ḥadīth master.

He transmitted copiously from his grandfather, had memorised the Qur’an and a fair portion of jurisprudence by the age of seven, after which his father took him travelling. On that journey he studied extensively under Ibn Shāhīn, al-Dāraqutnī, Yūsuf ibn al-Dakhīl (1), and the ḥāfiẓ Abū Zurʿah Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf.

His brilliance became proverbial; he related a vast amount of material, held dictation sessions, and his brother Masʿadah lived on after him until the year 443 AH.

He himself died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 431 AH, one year after the death of his brother, the Imām Abū al-ʿAlāʾ.

343 – al-Khawlānī, shaykh of the Mālikīs and muftī of Qayrawān *

A close companion of Abū ʿImrān al-Fāsī (2).

He studied law under Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd (3) and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qābisī (4).

Among the leading scholars who trained under him were Abū al-Qāsim ibn Muḥriz, Abū Isḥāq al-Tūnisī, and Abū