Among his poetry:
“O you who strut before the ages, vaunting your beauty,
show kindness to the yearning, love-struck wanderer.
He now trembles lest his heart be burned to ashes,
grieving because you dwell in its very core.” (1)
He passed away in Muḥarram of the year 562 AH. (2)
291 – Al-Qanṭarī, Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd ibn Mufarrij al-Andalusī, the native of Shilb (3), popularly known as al-Qanṭarī—an eminent authority and ḥāfiẓ.
He studied under Abū Bakr ibn Ghālib, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣāʿid, and, in Seville, Abū al-Ḥakam ibn Barrājān and the judge Ibn al-ʿArabī. In Córdoba he heard from Yūnus ibn Mughīth, Ibn Abī al-Khiṣāl, and several others.
Al-Abbār said: “He was thoroughly versed in the science of hadith, renowned for the breadth of his memory and his precision. A great collector of books, he was consulted on legal rulings, and he composed a supplement to Ibn Bashkuwāl’s History. Yaʿīsh ibn al-Qadīm and others transmitted from him. He died in Marrakesh, in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 561 AH.”