then he preached there for a time, and he told me that he had been born in 481 AH. He passed away in 546 AH.

Among his teachers were Khalaf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Nahhās and ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ṣadafī.

Ibn al-Zubayr said: “He was one of the accomplished, exacting imams and among the foremost critical scholars. People relied on what he committed to writing. He was open-handed, giving preference to others despite his limited means, and was upright of soul. He held the post of preacher in Murcia and later became judge of Dénia.” (1)

I say: Aḥmad ibn Salama transmitted the Muwattaʾ to us from Abū Jaʿfar al-Qurṭubī, based on his own audition from him.

139 – al-Bayyiʿ, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Zuhrī

The shaykh, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Zuhrī al-Waqqāṣī, originally from Dīnawar, later of Baghdad, known as al-Marātibī and nicknamed al-Bayyiʿ (the bookseller).

He heard hadith from his father, Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī, ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan, and Rizq Allah al-Tamīmī.

Among those who narrated from him was his nephew Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allah—this is noted in Mashyakhat al-Abarqūhī, our teacher.

Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “He came from a prosperous family and was an amiable, intelligent, naturally gifted shaykh, though he amused himself with pigeons.”

He told me that he was born at the beginning of 475 AH.