Tammām al-Hamdānī, the Maghribī, the leading scholar of Ceuta. He travelled widely and, while in al-Andalus, transmitted from Abū Bakr al-Zubaydī and Abū Muḥammad al-Aṣīlī; in Egypt he learned from Abū Bakr ibn al-Muhandis and his peers; and in Qayrawān from Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd.
Those who studied under him were: his son, the jurist Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad; Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥamza; Ibn Jamāḥ (1), the Mālikī judge; and Abū Muḥammad al-Masīlī.
He was a storehouse of learning, thoroughly versed in the school, versatile and erudite, eloquent, a skilled poet, a memorizer and critical examiner; legal verdicts commonly rested on his authority.
He died in Ṣafar 434 AH.
350 – al-Zuhrī, Abū Ṭālib ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd*
The jurist and renowned scholar Abū Ṭālib ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Zuhrī al-Waqqāṣī was a descendant of the Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ. A native of Baghdad, he ranked among the senior Shāfiʿī authorities of the city and was known as Ibn Ḥamāmah.
He was born in 347 AH.
He received transmission from Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī, Ibn Māsi, ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad al-Rukhhajī, and several others.