Among those who narrated from him were Ibn ʿAsakir and his son, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣaṣrā, Zayn al-Umanaʾ, Mukram ibn Abi al-Ṣaqr, and others. He died in 560 AH.
165 – Ibn Abi Marwan, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Anṣari*
The imam and ḥāfiẓ, Abū ʿUmar—also known as Abū Jaʿfar—Aḥmad ibn Abi Marwan ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣari, from Seville.
Al-Abbār said: “He heard from Shurayḥ ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Ḥakam ibn Ḥajjāj, and Mufarrij ibn Saʿādah. He was a ḥāfiẓ, a hadith scholar, and a Ẓāhirī jurist. He authored the book al-Muntakhab al-Muntaqā on hadith; upon it ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq (1) based his Aḥkām, and ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq was his student.”
He was martyred in the Labla engagement (2) in 549 AH.
166 – Ḥāmid ibn Abī al-Fath Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Madīnī**
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Madīnī, the ḥāfiẓ, one of the outstanding seekers of knowledge.
He heard from Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, Yaḥyā ibn Mandah, Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, and their contemporaries.