I add: Others who transmitted from him were the ḥadith master Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mufarrij al-Qanṭarī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbādah al-Jayyānī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Faras; Abū Muḥammad ʿUbayd Allāh; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭalḥah al-Muḥāribī; Abū al-Qāsim ibn Ḥubaysh; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sharrāṭ, and others. He—may Allah have mercy on him—was counted among the foremost scholars of his age.

75 – Ibn Tashfīn, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf al-Barbarī *

The sultan, ruler of the Maghreb, Commander of the Muslims: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī, son of the lord of the West Yūsuf ibn Tashfīn al-Barbarī, king of the Murābiṭūn.

He assumed power after his father in the year 500 AH (1).

He was courageous, engaged in jihad, just, devout, scrupulous, and righteous; he held the scholars in great esteem and regularly consulted them. Under his rule, jurisprudence, books, and legal minutiae thrived, to the point that people grew lax in their concern for hadith and transmitted reports. Philosophy was discredited, scholastic theology (kalām) was spurned and loathed, and ʿAlī became firmly convinced that kalām was an innovation unknown to the early generations. He therefore went to extremes: he issued threatening decrees and ordered books to be burned, expressly commanding the destruction of the writings of Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid and threatening death to anyone who concealed them. He devoted attention to the art of official correspondence and literary composition, and he lived to an advanced age (2).