Shirawayh said, “I heard from him almost everything he had to transmit.” He also stated, “He was trustworthy, upright, and came from a household of authority and learning. He was one of the leading dignitaries⦗1⦘ of our town.”

I add: Among those who narrated from him were Hibat Allah, the nephew of al-Ṭawīl, Aḥmad ibn Saʿd al-ʿIjlī, and a number of others.

Shirawayh further said, “He died on the twenty-eighth of Ramadan in the year 468 AH, and I heard him say, ‘I was born in 387 AH.’”

141 – ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Sahmī *

The imam and shaykh of the Malikīs: Abū Muḥammad al-Sahmī al-Ṣiqillī.

He studied jurisprudence under Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū ʿImrān al-Fāsī, and al-Ajdābī⦗2⦘. After performing the pilgrimage he met ʿAbd al-Wahhāb⦗3⦘, the author of al-Talqīn, and Abū Dharr al-Harawī.

Among his works are: al-Nukat wa-l-Furūq li-Masāʾil al-Mudawwana, and a book entitled Tahdhīb