In that same year there also died: Shams al-Mulūk Ismāʿīl (1) ibn Tāj al-Mulūk, who was slain; the Arab ruler Nūr al-Dawla Dubays ibn Ṣadaqa al-Asadī (2); the caliph al-Mustarshid (3) billāh ibn al-Mustaẓhir; the Chief Judge Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khalaf ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tujībī (4); and the distinguished scholar Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Khiyār al-ʿAbdarī al-Qurṭubī (5).
9 – Ibn Qubays: ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad al-Ghassānī
The shaykh, imām, jurist, grammarian, ascetic, devotee, and exemplar, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Qubays al-Ghassānī, a Damascene adherent of the Mālikī school.
He was born in 442 AH.
He heard hadith from his father; Abū al-Qāsim al-Sumaysāṭī; Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb; Abū Naṣr ibn Ṭalāb; Ghanāʾim al-Khayyāṭ; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd; and a number of others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir (6), al-Silafī, Ismāʿīl al-Janzawī (7), Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Harastānī, and others.