His erudite son, Abū Saʿd, passed away in 539 AH.
285 – al-Turṭushī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd ibn Khalaf *
The Imām, the eminent scholar, the exemplar, the ascetic, and shaykh of the Mālikī school—Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd ibn Khalaf ibn Sulaymān ibn Ayyūb al-Fihri, the Andalusian, known as al-Turṭushī—was a jurist and the foremost scholar of Alexandria.
Ṭurṭūsha was the northernmost frontier of Muslim territory in al-Andalus until, in later times, it fell to the enemy(1). In his own day Abū Bakr was also known as Ibn Abī Randaqa(2).
He kept close company with Qāḍī Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī in Saragossa, studying under him the disputed questions of jurisprudence. Thereafter he performed the pilgrimage and travelled on to Iraq.
In Basra he received the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd from Abū ʿAlī al-Tustarī(3), and he also heard
(*) al-Ansab 8:235; al-Sila 2:575-576; al-Kharida 12:26-27, 65-67; Bughiyat al-multamis 135-139; Muʿjam al-buldan 4:30; al-Maghrib 2:242; Wafayat al-aʿyan 4:262-265; Tarikh al-Islam 4:243/2-244/1; Duwal al-Islam 2:44; al-ʿIbar 4:48; al-Wafi 5:175; ʿUyun al-tawarikh 13:462-464; Mirʾat al-jinan 3:225-227; al-Dibaj al-mudhahhab 2:244-248; Wafayat Ibn Qunfudh 271-272; al-Iʿlam of Ibn Qadi Shuhba, obits for the year 520 H; al-Nujum al-zahira 5:231-232; Sifat Jazirat al-Andalus 125; Husn al-muhadara 1:452; Miftah al-saʿada 1:412; Azhar al-riyad 3:162; Nafh al-tib 2:85; Kashf al-zunun 984, 1113; Shadharāt al-dhahab 4:62; Hadiyyat al-ʿarifin 2:85; Shajarat al-nur al-zakiyya 124-125; the supplement to Brockelmann 1:829; Tarajim Andalusiyya 289-298; Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1:77-78.
(1) The relocation was completed in 543 AH/1148 CE, as stated in Yaqut’s Muʿjam, 4:30.
(2) Ibn Khallikan (4:265) notes that the word randaqa is pronounced with an open r, a quiescent n, an open d, and q; it is a Frankish term. When I asked some Franks, they said it means “return, come back.”
(3) Bughiyat al-multamis, 138-139, reports: “Abu al-Tahir Ibn ʿAwf and Abu –”