and five hundred AH. Tughtakin thereupon granted him the village of Zabadani (1). Because of the straits in which he found himself, he would confiscate the subjects’ wealth and treat them harshly. Many moves and changing circumstances followed, until his days waned and death overtook him—may Allah pardon him.

197 – Ibn Aṣbagh, Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aṣbagh
The leading shaykh of the Mālikīs and their foremost scholar in Córdoba: Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aṣbagh al-Azdi, al-Qurṭubī.
He transmitted ḥadith from Ḥātim ibn Muḥammad, studied jurisprudence under Abū Jaʿfar ibn Rizq, and received narrations from Abū Marwān ibn Sarāj and Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī. Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr also authorized him to transmit on his behalf. In the Mālikī school he was a marvel; none could rival him in the intricacies of legal conditions. He led the prayer in the Great Mosque of Córdoba, people heard ḥadith from him, and they studied law with him (2).
He died in Ṣafar, 505 AH, at the age of sixty.

198 – Sarfartaj, Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm
Known as “the Chief,” Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Madīnī, al-Thānī, the scribe, and a companion of the eminent ḥadith scholar Abū Nuʿaym.
He narrated ḥadith in Baghdad and served as a chancery scribe in Syria.