rather, al-ʿĀdid had poisoned him, hiding the poison in the chin-napkin that accompanies the robe of investiture.

330 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalīl al-Qaysī
The jurist and centenarian, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qaysī, al-Lablī, a Mālikī scholar, and companion of Mālik ibn Wuhayb.

He narrated from Muḥammad ibn Faraj al-Ṭallāʿī, the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī, Khāzim ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Sirāj, Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara, and a number of others.

Al-Abbār said: “He was a man of critical insight and reliable transmission. He resided in Fes and later in Marrakesh. Those who learned from him include our shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Andarashī and Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, the judge of Tlemcen. He heard Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim from al-Ghassānī, and he died in 570 AH.”

Ibn al-Zubayr said: “Yaʿīsh ibn al-Qadīm heard from him, and the last to transmit from him was our shaykh Isḥāq ibn ʿĀmir al-Ṭawsī—with an open ṭāʾ—the scribe.”

Ibn al-Zubayr also said elsewhere: “Isḥāq al-Ṭawsī related the Muwaṭṭaʾ to us; he was informed by Ibn Khalīl, who was informed by Ibn al-Ṭallāʿ.”

I say: Ibn al-Zubayr explicitly states that his transmission of the Muwaṭṭaʾ from al-Ṭawsī was by munāwala (hand-to-hand delivery of a copy), and that al-Qaysī’s transmission from al-Ṭallāʿī was by ijāza (formal authorization) if not by direct audition.