al-Wahrani; through these teachers he reached the standing of his father, and his first audition took place in the year 393 AH (1).

He left Córdoba during the Great Fitnah (2) and lived in Zaragoza and Almería. He was later appointed judge in Toledo and Dénia, after which he moved to Seville and then back to Córdoba (3).

Those who reported from him include the ḥadith master Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī and a number of others—some I know and some I do not—as well as most of the shaykhs of al-Andalus. We have not concerned ourselves with identifying them, for their narrations have not reached us.

He was of pleasant character, gracious, learned, and swift in writing. Together with Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, he became the foremost source of elevated isnāds.

He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 467 AH, at the age of eighty-seven, and al-Muʿtamad ʿalā Allah himself walked in his funeral procession.

In the same year also passed away: Abū Manṣūr Shujāʿ ibn ʿAlī al-Maṣqalī (4); al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allah (5); Jamāl al-Islām al-Dawwūdī (6); Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bākharzī (7), author of “Dumyat al-Qaṣr”; and ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣaṣrā.