al-Saraqūstī, author of Tajrīd al-Ṣiḥāḥ (1).
He resided in Mecca for many years, and there he studied the Sahih of al-Bukhari with ʿĪsā ibn Abī Dharr and the Sahih of Muslim with Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ṭabarī.
Those who transmitted from him include: the Judge of the Sanctuary Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī; the ascetic Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah, father of Shaykh Abū ʿUmar; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Mūsā al-Madanī; and the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir (2), who said, “He was the leading Mālikī imām in the Sacred Precinct.”
I say: He introduced into his book some weak additions; had he refrained from them, it would have been outstanding.
He died in Mecca, in Muḥarram of the year 535 AH (3), having reached advanced age.
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us; Ibn Qudāmah informed us; my father, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, informed us; Razīn ibn Muʿāwiyah informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī informed us; ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā informed us; Ibn Sufyān narrated to us; Muslim narrated to us; Ibn Qaʿnab narrated to us; Mālik narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, from ʿAlqamah ibn Waqāṣ, from ʿUmar:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Actions are only by intentions, and every person shall have only what he intended. So whoever’s emigration was to Allah—”