63 – al-Humaydī, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Futūḥ ibn ʿAbd Allah – the imām, exemplar, meticulous Atharī traditionist, ḥadīth master, and shaykh of the scholars of ḥadīth. His full name is Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Abī Naṣr Futūḥ ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Futūḥ ibn Ḥumayd ibn Yasil (1) al-Azdī, al-Humaydī, the Andalusian, al-Mayurqī; a jurist of the Ẓāhirī school, companion and disciple of Ibn Ḥazm.
Mayurqa is an island that contains a fortified town opposite the eastern coast of al-Andalus; today it is in the hands of the Christians.
He said, “My birth was some time before the year 420 AH.”
He kept close company with the jurist Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad (2), narrating extensively from him, and he studied under Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (3) and a number of others. Later he travelled and, in Egypt, learned from the judge Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Quḍāʿī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Qazwīnī, Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥabbāl, several others, and the ḥadīth master ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad al-Bukhārī.
In Damascus he received ḥadīths from Abū al-Qāsim al-Hinnāʾī, the ḥadīth master Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī, and he also heard
(*) al-Ansab, vol. 4, p. 233; Fihrist Ibn Khayr, pp. 226-227, 400 and elsewhere; al-Sila, vol. 2, pp. 560-561; al-Muntazam, vol. 9, p. 96; Bughyat al-Multamis, pp. 123-124; Muʿjam al-Udaba, vol. 18, pp. 282-286; al-Lubab, vol. 1, p. 392; al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh, vol. 10, p. 254; Duwal al-Islam, vol. 2, p. 18; al-Ibar, vol. 3, p. 323; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 4, pp. 1218-1222; Tammat al-Mukhtasar, vol. 2, p. 17; al-Mustafad min Dhayl Tarikh Baghdad, pp. 34-36; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, vol. 4, pp. 317-318; Mirat al-Jinan, vol. 3, p. 149; al-Bidaya, vol. 12, p. 152; al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 5, p. 156; Miftah al-Saʿada, vol. 2, p. 140; Nafh al-Tib, vol. 2, pp. 115-122; Kashf al-Zunun, pp. 252, 385, 581; Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 392; Idah al-Maknun, vol. 1, p. 124; al-Risala al-Mustatrafa, p. 173; the introduction to Jadhwat al-Muqtabis by Muhammad al-Tunji and the introduction to the Dar Ihya al-Turath edition.
(1) The word is pronounced with a fathah on the yaʾ, a kasrah on the sad, followed by a lam.
(2) His biography has already been given in vol. 18, no. 99.
(3) His biography has already been given in vol. 18, no. 85.