—it is said that he expended a large amount of gold on it. Another report states that the Syrian was sharp-tempered and somewhat rough, yet his virtues were numerous.
He died in Shaʿbān of the year 488 AH, when he was close to ninety, and was buried in a plot he owned near Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Surayj. (1)
48 – Ibn Mufawwiz, Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭāhir b. Mufawwiz b. Aḥmad *
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, critic, and masterful scholar: Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭāhir b. Mufawwiz b. Aḥmad b. Mufawwiz al-Maʿāfirī al-Shāṭibī, a disciple and close companion of Abū ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Barr. He transmitted extensively from him and did so with meticulous precision. (2)
He also learned from Abū al-ʿAbbās b. Dilhāth, Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī, Ibn Shākir al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Tunkutī, (3) Ḥātim b. Muḥammad al-Qurṭubī, Abū Marwān b. Ḥayyān, and several others.
Sharp-witted and intelligent, he was an authority, one of the great repositories of knowledge and champions of hadith, renowned for accuracy and refinement, and marked by virtue, scrupulousness, God-fearing devotion, dignity, and noble bearing.
He was born in 429 AH. (4)
He passed away on the fourth of Shaʿbān, 484 AH.