Others who transmitted from him were Ibn al-Akhdar, Aḥmad ibn al-Bandanījī, and Ibn al-Samʿānī. He ranked among the leading merchants, taught in Khurasan, and was cited by Shaykh al-Muwaffaq. He passed away in Jumada al-Akhirah, 568 AH.

366 – Ibn al-Niʿmah ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Khalaf al-Ansari *

The Imām, the erudite scholar versed in many disciplines, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Khalaf ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Niʿmah al-Ansari, the Andalusian from Almería, and the shaykh of Valencia.

He studied under Imām Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Shafīʿ and ʿAbbād ibn Sarḥān. His father brought him to Valencia in 506 AH, where he recited to Mūsā ibn Khumays, became his close companion, and later narrated from Abū Baḥr ibn al-ʿĀṣī and Khulayṣ ibn ʿAbd Allah.

He pursued jurisprudence in Cordoba with Abū al-Walīd ibn Rushd and Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥājj, and heard hadith from Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAṭṭāb, Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkarah, and several others.

He held the teaching chair for Qurʾanic readings, jurisprudence, grammar, and hadith.

Al-Abbār said: “He was a scholar of exacting mastery, thoroughly versed in jurisprudence, exegesis, and the import of prophetic reports; foremost in the science of language, eloquent and articulate, pious, virtuous, highly esteemed, and gentle.”