in tending to his own soul; he had heard a great deal from my grandfather, from Ibn Masrūr, and from a number of others, and he had lived past one hundred years. He died on the sixth of Ṣafar in the year 518 AH, at Nīshāpūr.

In that same year there also passed away: the eminent scholar Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maydānī (1); Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nūḥī (2), the preacher of Samarkand; Abū al-Fath Sulṭān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maqdisī al-Shāfiʿī; and Abū Ṭāhir al-Dashtaju (3).

297 – Ibn ʿAttāb, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Qurṭubī *

The shaykh, the erudite authority, the muḥaddith, the trustworthy narrator, and the musnid of al-Andalus—Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of the muḥaddith Muḥammad ibn ʿAttāb ibn Muḥsin al-Qurṭubī.

He received hadith in large numbers from his father, from Ḥātim ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭarābulusī, and from several others.

He recited the seven canonical readings to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb, the Qurʾān-reciter. Licences (ijazahs) were granted to him by Makkī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀbid, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd al-Shantajālī, Abū ʿAmr al-Sifāqisī, Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Abū ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥaddāʾ, and Abū Ḥafṣ ibn al-Zahrāwī.

Khalaf ibn Bashkuwāl said: “He was the last of the eminent, senior shaykhs in al-Andalus in…"