ibn al-Jullābī—pronounced with ḍamma—the Wāsiṭī, a Mālikī, known as al-Maghāzilī (1), whose reliability was affirmed (al-muʿaddal), and a police official (al-shurūṭī).

He was born in 457 AH.

His father arranged for him to hear ḥadīth from Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mukhlad al-Azdī, al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Ghandajanī, Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Kumārī, Abū Yaʿlā ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-ʿAllāf, and Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUkbarī when the latter visited Wāsiṭ. He also heard in Baghdad from al-Humaydī, and he possessed written authorisations from Abū Ghālib ibn al-Khālah, the lexicographer, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, and Abū Tammām ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, the companion of Ibn al-Muẓaffar. In a number of narrations he alone carried the chain.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He is a warm-hearted shaykh, delightful in company, and he deputised for the judge of Wāsiṭ. I travelled to him and heard much from him, among which were Musnad al-Khulafāʾ al-Rāshidīn by Aḥmad ibn Sinān and al-Birr wa ’l-Ṣilah by Ibn al-Mubārak. He taught in Baghdad after 520 AH. Our shaykh Aḥmad ibn al-Aghlāqī accused him of claiming to have heard something he had not actually heard, yet outwardly he displayed truthfulness and trustworthiness, and his auditions and source manuscripts are sound.”

I say: Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥasan ibn Makkī al-Marandī (2); Abū al-Muẓaffar ʿAlī ibn Naghūbā (3); Yaḥyā ibn al-Rabīʿ, the jurist; Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Awānī; Abū al-Makārim ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Jalakht; and Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Ṣadaqah al-Gharāfī,