Al-Salafī said: “Abū al-Ḥusayn was fiercely loyal to his school. He often spoke out against the Ashʿarīs and made sure they heard it, fearing no reproach for the sake of Allah. He authored several works championing the Ḥanbalī school. He was devout, reliable, and firmly grounded; we ourselves heard ḥadith from him.”

Ibn al-Jawzī (1) related: “He had a room in his house at Bāb al-Marātib where he slept alone. A servant learned that he possessed some money, so they slaughtered him at night and took the money on the eve of ʿĀshūrāʾ in 526 AH. The culprits were soon caught and executed.”

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He excelled and wrote on the two foundations (uṣūl al-dīn and uṣūl al-fiqh), on juristic disputation, and on the school itself. He was devout, trustworthy, of commendable conduct—may Allah have mercy on him.”

351 – Ibn Abī Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khushnī*

The imam, erudite scholar, jurist of the Maghreb, and shaykh of the Mālikīs: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh, son of Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Khushnī, from Murcia.

He heard ḥadith from Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Ibn Dilhāth al-ʿUdhri, Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī, Ibn Masrūr, Muḥammad ibn Saʿdūn al-Qurawī, and Ḥātim ibn Muḥammad. He transmitted to us the work al-Mulakhkhaṣ; al-Qābisī reported it. He performed the pilgrimage and, in Mecca, heard from al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī. He studied jurisprudence in Cordoba under Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Rizq al-Mālikī, and the leadership in mastery of the school ultimately rested with him; he became a leading authority in