ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sībī, known as al-Qasrī.

He told a number of his students, “I was born in 388 AH at Qasr Ibn Hubayrah.” He studied Qur’anic recitation with al-Hammāmī.

Among those from whom he heard hadiths were Abū al-Hasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣalt, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Tamīmī, and Ibn al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān.

Had he begun attending auditions while still young, he would have reached the students of al-Baghawī. He was a masterful and exacting reciter; he read the various canonical transmissions with Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Hammāmī, and large numbers completed their recitations under him.

Al-Samʿānī observed: “People journeyed to him from distant lands and narrated abundantly from him. He was virtuous and upright, trustworthy and firmly reliable. Among those who transmitted to us from him were Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarqandī, Abū al-Barakāt al-Anmāṭī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl al-Taymī, and Abū Naṣr al-Ghāzī.”

Ibn Sukkara said: “He was a righteous, elderly, and chaste man; he used to wind a black turban around his head.”

Ibn Nāṣir (1) recorded that he died on the twenty-fifth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 490 AH.