Saʿīd ibn Wahb al-Andalusī al-Marīyī (1), better known as Ibn al-Murābiṭ, the author of the Commentary on Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (2).
Abū ʿUmar al-Talamankī and Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī granted him an ijāza.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Qāsim al-Muhallab and Abū al-Walīd ibn Mīqul, and students travelled to study with him.
Among those who learned from him were Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā al-Tamīmī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara, Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Jaʿfar al-Sabtī, and others.
He died in Shawwāl, 485 AH, after reaching an advanced age.
He was counted among the senior Mālikī authorities.
37 – al-Hakkārī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Jaʿfar *
The shaykh, the scholar, the ascetic, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿArafa ibn Maʾmūn ibn al-Muʾammal ibn al-Walīd ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Walīd.
(1) The nisba al-Mariyyi refers to Almeria, pronounced with a short “a” followed by an “i” and with a doubled y; Almeria was a major city in the Ilbira district of al-Andalus.
(2) Hadiyat al-Arifin, 2/76, lists his writings: Tarikh Balansiyya (History of Valencia); an abridgement of al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra’s commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, expanded by the author; and, according to al-Sila, 2/557, he also produced an independent commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari. The compiler states that he transmitted hadith from him.
(*) Cited by: Al-Ansab, 591a; al-Muntazam, 9/79; Dhayl Tarikh Baghdad, 3/172; al-Lubab, 3/390; al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh, 10/226-227; Wafayat al-Ayan, 3/345; al-Ibar, 3/312-313; Mizan al-I‘tidad, 3/122; al-Mughni fi al-Duafa, 2/443; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 3/1199; al-Mustafad min Dhayl Tarikh Baghdad, 182-183; Mirat al-Jinan, 3/142; al-Nihaya, 12/145; Lisan al-Mizan, 4/195; al-Nujum al-Zahira, 5/138; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3/378-379.