His perceptive students compiled and transmitted his narrations. He was a man of devotion and worship; people would visit him and seek blessings through him. He died suddenly at the end of Ramadan in the year 544 AH.

133 – al-Fandalaawī, Abū al-Hajjāj Yūsuf ibn Dūnās al-Maghribī *

The imām Abū al-Hajjāj Yūsuf ibn Dūnās (1) al-Maghribī, known as al-Fandalaawī, was a Mālikī scholar—preacher of Baniyās and later instructor of Mālikī jurisprudence in Damascus. He transmitted the Muwattaʾ with a lower chain of transmission.

Ibn ʿAsākir transmitted from him and said: “He was pleasant in conversation, charming in social gatherings, fiercely loyal to the school of Ahl al-Sunnah, generous, free from affectation, and stout-hearted. I heard Abū Turāb ibn Qays relate that he had once embraced the creed of the Hashawiyyah and hated al-Fandalaawī for refuting them. While on the way to the Hajj he was captured, thrown into a pit, and sealed in with a boulder; he remained there for a time while food was thrown down to him. One night he heard a voice saying, ‘Give me your hand.’ He extended it, and the man pulled him out. It turned out to be al-Fandalaawī, who said, ‘Repent from what you were upon.’ So he repented, and the man would deliver the sermon on the night of the final recitation in Ramadan—"