I said: On this basis he, Abū ʿUmar ibn al-Bājī, and all of his family are from Bāja in al-Qayrawān—and Allah knows best.

Among the poetry of Abū al-Walīd are these lines:
“If I possess certain knowledge
that my whole life is but an hour,
why, then, do I not guard it jealously
and devote it to righteousness and obedient worship?” (1)

Ibn Salāmah informed us in writing; from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan; my father informed us; Razīn ibn Muʿāwiyah in Makkah informed us; the jurist ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣiqillī in Makkah informed us; the judge Abū al-Walīd related to us; Yūnus ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurṭubī related to us; Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to us, from his father, from Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, who reported from Mālik, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:
“That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ halted at al-Baṭḥā near Dhū al-Ḥulayfa and prayed there.” (2)

Ibn ʿAsākir transmitted it in this wording.

Ibn ʿAllān and a number of others informed us, from Abū Tāhir al-Khushūʿī, from Abū Bakr—