a Rafidi, and in that same year there also passed away: the mufti Saʿd ibn ʿAli al-ʿIjli (1) in Hamadhan; ʿAbd al-Khaliq ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf, the tutor, known as Ibn al-Abrāṣ (2)—he had met al-Lālkāʾi; the senior Shafiʿi authority Abu al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad al-Marwazi, the Embroiderer (3); the eminent scholar Abu Saʿid ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn al-Qushayri; ʿAzizi ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Jili, the judge of Shaydhala (4); Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Rādhani, the Hanbali ascetic; Abu Masʿud Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Suwdrajani; the judge Abu Nasr ibn Wudʿan al-Mawsili (5); Mansur ibn Bakr ibn Hiyd (6); Nasr ibn al-Baṭir, the foremost musnid of the day; and ʿAli ibn Ahmad ibn al-Akhram, the muʾadhdhin (7).
77 – al-Jayyani, Abu ʿAli al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, consummate master, authoritative proof, critic, and hadith scholar of al-Andalus—Abu ʿAli al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ghassani, the Andalusian from Jaén (8), the author of
(1) His biography will be given under no. 118 of the present volume.
(2) His biography will be given under no. 119 of the present volume.
(3) His biography will be given under no. 80 of the present volume.
(4) His biography will be given under no. 96 of the present volume.
(5) His full name is Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Wadaʿan, d. 494/1101; he is accused of fabrication. The author will discuss him under no. 90 of this volume.
(6) His biography will be given under no. 102 of the present volume.
(7) His biography will be given under no. 84 of the present volume.
(*) For further details see: al-Sila 1/142-144; Bughyat al-multamis (al-Dhabbi) p. 265-266; Wafayat al-aʿyan 2/180; al-ʿIbar 3/351; Tadhkirat al-huffaz 4/1233; al-Wafi bil-wafayat (ms.) 11/105; Uyun al-tawarikh 13/135-136; Mirat al-janan 3/46, 161; al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya 12/165; al-Dibaj al-mudhahhab 1/332-333; al-Nujum al-zahira 5/192; Kashf al-zunun pp. 88, 470; Shadharat al-dhahab 3/408-409; Fihris al-faharis 2/254; Shajarat al-nur 1/128; Azhar al-riyad 3/149.
(8) Ibn Bashkuwal, 1/143, notes that he was called al-Jiyani, not because he came from Jaen, but because his father settled there during the Berber revolt c. 400/1010; their family actually originated from al-Zahra.