He was held up as the very model of acumen, mastery of the doctrines of the Ancients, medicine, music, and the subtlest points of philosophy.
He was compared with al-Fārābī, and there were even efforts to kill him.
Among those who studied under him were Ibn Rushd the Grandson and Ibn al-Imām al-Kātib.
He died in Fez in 533 AH, without ever reaching middle age. (1)
55 – Ibn Khayrūn, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī*
The shaykh, the imām, the long-lived scholar, the leader of the Qur’an reciters: Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Khayrūn al-Baghdādī—the renowned reciter and cloth-merchant—author of the work al-Miftāḥ on the Ten Readings and of al-Muwaḍḍaḥ on the readings.
He was born in Rajab 454 AH.
His uncle, the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Faḍl, promptly obtained for him an authorization from Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī and Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Narsī.
He heard from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima the book al-Nasab by al-Zubayr.
He likewise heard from Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb most of his History, from Abū Muḥammad ibn Hazārmard, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, and several others.
He recited the various transmissions of the Qur’an to ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn ʿAṭṭāb, to his maternal grandfather Abū al-Barakāt ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Aḥmad, and to Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn.