ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, al-Māzarī, the Mālikī.
He is the author of al-Muʿlim bi-Fawāʾid Sharḥ Muslim (1) and of Īḍāḥ al-Maḥṣūl fī al-Uṣūl, and he penned additional works on literature. He was counted among the outstandingly intelligent and the deeply learned imams. He also produced a commentary on al-Talqīn by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Mālikī (2) in ten volumes, a work regarded as one of the most precious books.
He possessed keen insight into the science of hadith.
Those who narrated from him include Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ and Abū Jaʿfar ibn Yaḥyā al-Qurṭubī al-Wazghī.
He was born in the city of al-Mahdiyya in Ifrīqiya and died there in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 536 AH, at the age of eighty-three.
Māzar is a small town on the island of Sicily; the zāʾ is normally pronounced with a fatḥa, though a kasra is also heard.
This entry was recorded by Ibn Khallikān (3).
It is related that he once became seriously ill and could find no physician except a Jew. After recovering through the man’s treatment he said, “Were it not for my commitment to preserving my craft, I would have deprived the Muslims of you.”
This incident left its mark