Muḥammad al-Khulmi (1) al-Balkhī; Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb, a resident of Sarakhs; ʿAbd al-Halīm ibn Muḥammad al-Bukhārī; and a number of others. His son ʿUmar studied jurisprudence with him, as did Shaykh al-Islam Burhān al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Farghānī, together with a group of pupils.
He died on 19 Shaʿbān 512 AH. His distinguished son, ʿImād al-Dīn ʿUmar, passed away in 584 AH.
241 – The Qayrawānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAtīq ibn Muḥammad
The eminent scholar, legal theorist, and shaykh of the Qur’an reciters: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAtīq ibn Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Mālik al-Tamīmī al-Qayrawānī, better known as Ibn Abī Kudya.
He studied kalām in Kairouan under al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥātim, a companion of Ibn al-Bāqillānī. He heard ḥadith from Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr and from the judge Muḥammad ibn Salāmah al-Qudaʿī; he recited the Qur’an’s various transmissions to Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Nafīs; and in Baghdad he learned from ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAṭṭār.
He taught in Ṣūr, where the jurist Naṣr al-Maqdisī heard from him. Those who transmitted from him include Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAbdarī, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, al-Salafī, and others. He occupied the teaching chair in legal theory and was an ardent supporter of the Ashʿarī school.
Abū al-Karam al-Shahrazūrī recited the variant readings to him.