ibn Mughāwir ibn Ḥakam ibn Mughāwir al-Sulamī, from Shāṭiba.

He was born in 502 AH.

He studied under his father and under Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara al-Ṣadafī, the last of that scholar’s pupils.

He read Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī with Abū Jaʿfar ibn Ghazlūn, a disciple of Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī, and also with Aḥmad ibn Jaḥdar al-Anṣārī.

Among those who transmitted from him were: Abū al-Rabīʿ ibn Sālim, the two sons of Ḥawṭ Allāh, Hāniʾ ibn Hāniʾ, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭayyib al-Mursī, who said of him, “He is the leading authority on eloquence.”

Al-Abbār(2) remarked: “He was the last of the master scribes and men of letters—trustworthy, generous, eloquent, articulate, discerning. He possessed a large share of poetic talent and was truthful in speech. His life was long, his chains of transmission rose high, and he taught in Shāṭiba.”

He passed away in Ṣafar, 587 AH.

Ibn Sālim said: “I met him in Valencia at the beginning of 580 AH; I heard from him and he granted me a written licence. I also heard from him in Shāṭiba in 586 AH the ‘Benefits of Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣadafī’, the fascicle of Ibn ʿArafa, and the higher-isnād traditions of Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn. Ibn Mughāwir narrated to me: ‘Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣadafī informed us; Abū al-Qāsim ibn Fahd the grain-merchant informed us, together with others, saying:

“Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad informed us …,” after which he quoted the ḥadith, “to give charity while you are healthy and tight-fisted …”(3)"