the erudite littérateur Abū Zakariyyā al-Tibrīzī, together with a number of others.

Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir records that while in Damascus he also heard hadith from Abū al-Barakāt ibn Ṭāwūs and from al-Sharīf al-Nasīb, and that those who later narrated from him included ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣābir, his brother, and Aḥmad ibn Salāmah al-Abbār. He returned to al-Andalus in 491 AH.

I add: he went back to al-Andalus after burying his father during the journey—most likely in Jerusalem—then set himself to authoring and compiling. He excelled in every branch of learning and was noted for his fluency, eloquence, and power as an orator.

Among his works are: ʿĀriḍat al-Aḥwadhī, a commentary on the Jāmiʿ of Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī (1); a complete commentary on the Glorious Qur’an in which he produced many original insights; Kawkab al-Ḥadīth wa-l-Musalsalāt (2); al-Aṣnāf on jurisprudence; Ummahāt al-Masāʾil; Nuzhat al-Nāẓir (3); Satr al-ʿAwrah; al-Maḥṣūl in legal theory; Ḥasm al-Dāʾ, a discussion of the ḥadith al-sawdāʾ; a work on epistles and the more obscure points of the grammarians; Tartīb al-Riḥla li-l-Targhīb fī al-Milla; al-Fiqh al-Aṣghar al-Muʿallab al-Aṣghar (4); and other compositions that we have not yet seen (5).