Ibn al-Najjar said, “He was a devout, chaste, and truthful shaykh, of fine character and gentle manner, and he transmitted a great deal.”
I add: He was born in 468 AH.
He passed away on the nineteenth of Rabiʿ al-Akhir, 562 AH, at the age of ninety-four.
294 – al-Ashīrī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh*
The imam, the erudite scholar, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣinhājī, known as al-Ashīrī.
Ashir is a small town at the western edge of the province of Ifriqiya; it is a fortress belonging to the Banū Ḥammād, the kings of Ifriqiya (1).
He auditioned hadith in Baghdad together with his son during the days of Ibn Hubayra. He was one of the leading Malikis and narrated from Ahmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ghazlūn, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mawhab al-Judhāmī, Qadi Iyad, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū al-Futūḥ ibn al-Huṣrī and Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAllūn al-Asadī.
Ibn al-Huṣrī said, “He was an imam in hadith, well-versed in its jurisprudence and its transmitters,”