He was the only man of his era to possess a written authorization from the Imām Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī, and Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr likewise licensed him.
Al-Abbār mentions him, saying: “His son Abū Bakr Muḥammad—our own teacher—narrated from him.”
I add: That son, Abū Bakr, heard from him the book al-Taysīr on the seven canonical readings, and he lived on until shortly before 600 AH.
Abū al-ʿAbbās himself died in 533 AH.
52 – al-Shāṭibī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad
The imām and transmitter: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Lakhmī al-Andalusī, known as al-Shāṭibī, the grandson—through his daughter—of the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr.
His grandfather authorized him to transmit all his writings in 462 AH.
He was born in 443 AH.
He heard the two Ṣaḥīḥs from Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Dilhāth al-ʿUdhri, and Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī from the judge Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī.
He later served as judge of the city of Aghmāt (1).
Among those who narrated from him were his daughter’s grandson ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Aghmātī and ʿĪsā ibn al-Maljūm, and he granted an authorization to Ibn Bashkuwāl as well.
He died in Ṣafar of 533—or, according to another report, 532—AH, at the age of ninety.