and Masʿūd ibn Ismāʿīl, Abū Naṣr al-Ghāzī, Abū al-Khayr al-Bāghbān, Maḥmūd ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm Yūrjah, Abū Rashīd Aḥmad ibn Ḥamd al-Khirqī, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿdawayh, al-Ḥasan ibn Rajāʾ ibn Sulaym, and Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Ṣāliḥānī, the man of letters.
He passed away in 481 AH, at a little over ninety years of age.
303 – al-Azdī, Abū ʿUthmān Ṭāhir ibn Hishām al-Andalusī *
The Mālikī mufti, Abū ʿUthmān Ṭāhir ibn Hishām al-Azdī, an Andalusī from Almería.
He heard from: al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah (1), Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAfīf, and—after performing the pilgrimage—from Abū Dharr the ḥadith master, as well as others.
Narrated from him: Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara and others.
Ibn Bashkuwāl said: “A number of scholars informed us about him.” He lived for eighty-six years, and died in 477 AH (2).
304 – al-Mahrī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAmmār al-Andalusī **
The poet of al-Andalus, holder of the two ministries, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAmmār al-Andalusī al-Mahrī.