—barred from transmitting hadith, as has already been mentioned.

In Basra he heard from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shaghaba and Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAbbādānī; in al-Anbar from its preacher Abū al-Ḥasan; in Baghdad from ʿAlī ibn Quraysh, ʿĀṣim al-Adīb, and Mālik al-Bāniyāsī; and in Wāsiṭ from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Uḥmūla, from whom he also obtained the Taʿlīqa through Abū Bakr al-Shāshī (1).

In Damascus he studied under the jurist Naṣr (2). He returned with abundant learning and excelled in hadith—both text and chain—while distinguished as well by fine handwriting, accuracy, graceful composition, expertise in jurisprudence and literature, and by his piety, goodness, and humility.

Ibn Bashkuwāl said, “He is the most eminent person ever to write to me seeking an ijāzah (authorization to transmit) (3).”

Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ compiled for him a Mashyakhah and transmitted extensively from him.

He was forced to accept the judgeship, serving in Murcia, then went into hiding until he was relieved of the post.

He also recited the variant Qurʾanic readings to Ibn Khayrūn and Rizq Allāh. His teacher, the jurist Naṣr, wrote down three hadith from him, and among those who narrated from him were Ibn Ṣābir, Qāḍī Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Zakwī, and Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ. The latter transmitted through him his copy of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, which has reached us via Aḥmad ibn Dilhāth al-ʿUdhri.