Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī ʿĪsā Lubb ibn Yaḥyā al-Maʿāfirī, the Andalusian, al-Talamankī.

Talamanka—with every syllable pronounced short and the n kept silent—is a town the enemy seized in ancient times.

He was an ocean of knowledge, and his first formal audition took place in 362 AH.

He narrated from: Abū ʿĪsā Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Laythī; Abū Bakr al-Zubaydī; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Bishr al-Anṭākī; Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAwn Allah; Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Mufarrij; Abū Muḥammad al-Bājī; Khalaf ibn Muḥammad al-Khawlānī; and a number of others.

He also studied under Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Muhandis in Egypt; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAmmār in Damietta; Abū al-Ṭayyib ibn Ghalbūn; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jawharī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Udfuwī; the jurist Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd; Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Raḥmūn; Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Muṭṭalibī—whom he met in Medina; Abū al-Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUjayfī; Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Māhān; along with many others.

Those who transmitted from him include: Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr; Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥazm; ʿAbd Allah ibn Sahl, the Qurʾān-reciter; and several more.

He introduced into al-Andalus a vast and beneficial body of knowledge, and he was astonishing in his mastery of the Qurʾānic sciences—its variant readings, linguistic subtleties, syntax, legal rulings, abrogated passages, and meanings.

He authored numerous works on the Sunnah in which his excellence, prodigious memory, leadership, and fidelity to the transmitted reports are clearly manifest.

Abū ʿAmr ad-Dānī said: “He learned the Qurʾān readings from al-Anṭākī, Ibn Ghalbūn, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Nuʿmān.”