He heard hadith from al-Qaṭīʿī, Ibn Māsī, Makhlad al-Bāqarḥī, and ʿAlī ibn Luʾluʾ.
Al-Khaṭīb declared him reliable (1).
Al-Khaṭīb himself narrated from him, as did Thābit ibn Bundār, his brother Abū Yāsir, Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī, and others.
He died on the last day of 440 AH, at the age of eighty.
421 – al-Labīdī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaḍramī *
The mufti of the Maghrib, Abū al-Qāsim (2) ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaḍramī, a Mālikī known as al-Labīdī—Labīda is one of the villages of Ifrīqiyah.
He kept company with the exemplar Abū Isḥāq al-Jubnayānī (3) and remained constantly at his side.
Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn Saʿdūn and others.
He was counted among the righteous scholars, of lofty standing and celebrated reputation—devout, sincere, versatile, and an outstanding poet.
He composed a work on the Mālikī school in a dozen or so volumes, and another book that sets out