al-Qurʾān) in three hundred fascicles; Kitāb al-Tabyīn li-Hijāʾ al-Tanzīl, six volumes; Kitāb al-Iʿtimād, a didactic poem in which he rivalled his shaykh on the fundamentals of Qurʾānic studies and theology, ten parts, containing a little over eighteen thousand lines of verse; Kitāb al-Ṣalāt al-Wusṭā, one volume; and a number of other works, bringing the total to twenty-six compositions. He was an ocean of learning and one of the foremost scholars of al-Andalus in his era.

I add: I have recited the variant readings through his chain from Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī.

93 – al-Marāghī, Abū Turāb ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAlī

The shaykh, the imam, the exemplar, the jurist, the polymath, the last of the senior masters: Abū Turāb ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hārūn al-Marāghī, al-Narīzī (1), a Shāfiʿī who settled in Nīshāpūr (2).

He heard ḥadith from Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bishrān, Abū Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Iṣbahānī, and a number of others.

Narrated from him were: ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Dāmghānī, Abū ʿUthmān al-ʿAsāʾidī, Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir, his son ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Zāhir, and others.