He studied the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī with Abū Muḥammad al-Aṣīlī—missing only a brief portion—and also received ḥadith from Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Barṭāl, Abū Muḥammad ibn Maslamah, and Abū al-Maṭraf ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Fuṭays.
He held the judiciary for a little over ten years; he was praised without reserve, and no lapse was ever recorded against him.
A devout jurist, upright, benevolent, and forbearing, he followed the way of the early generations. A number of eminent scholars transmitted from him. He lived for eighty-six years (1).
He passed away in Shawwāl of the year 456 AH.
He was the father of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Sirāj, the foremost authority on Arabic language (2).
- al-Qabrī — ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Mawhab*
The imam, the erudite scholar, Abū Shākir ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Mawhab al-Tujībī, an Andalusian known as al-Qabrī—so called after the city of Qabra (3)—a Mālikī jurist.
He was born in 377 AH.
In his time he alone possessed an ijāza (written authorization) from the jurist Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd (4).