know its lethal poisons, it was feared that they might then regard what it contains as sound. Burning it was therefore tantamount to what the Companions burned of the scattered Qur’anic parchments that differed from the ‘Uthmanic codex… He went on to cite the rest of the epistle.
Ibn al-Mufaḍḍal said: He died in Alexandria, in Jumada al-Ula of the year 520 AH.
In that same year there also died: Abū al-Walīd Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭarīf al-Qurṭubī; Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, the preacher, brother of Imām Abū Ḥāmid; the emir Qasīm al-Dawlah Āq-Sunqur al-Bursuqī (1), who took control of Mosul and Aleppo; Abū Baḥr Sufyān ibn al-ʿĀṣ al-Asadī (2) of Córdoba; Ṣāʿid ibn Sayyār al-Harawī, the ḥadīth master (3); Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿUtāb al-Qurṭubī; the Chief Judge Abū al-Walīd ibn Rushd; and Muḥammad ibn Barakāt al-Saʿīdī (4), the transmitter of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī.
286 – al-Qalānsi, Abū al-ʿIzz Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Bundār*
The great imām, shaykh of the Qur’an reciters, Abū al-ʿIzz Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Bundār al-Wāsiṭī, known as al-Qalānsi, author of works on the variant readings.