al-Tamhīd by Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr.
Whenever the Muwaṭṭaʾ or the two Ṣaḥīḥs were read aloud in his presence, he would correct the copies from memory, so much so that people used to say, “He has stored away a camel-load of knowledge.”
Ibn Khallikān (1) said: It is reported that his given name and his kunya were identical, yet I have found in his teachers’ licences that he was styled Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim.
He (2) was a guest of the eminent Judge al-Fāḍil, who placed him in charge of Qur’an instruction at his madrasa, as well as the teaching of grammar and language. He avoided idle talk, spoke only when necessary, and would never sit to teach unless he was in a state of ritual purity.
137 – Ibn Ṣaṣrā, al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allah ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Taghlibī*
The imam, scholar, ḥadith master, precisionist, accomplished authority, chief, and nobleman—Abū al-Mawāhib al-Ḥasan, son of the judge Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allah ibn Maḥfūẓ ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣaṣrā al-Taghlibī, of Balad stock, Damascene by residence, and a Shāfiʿī.
He was born in 537 AH.
His original name was Naṣr Allah, but he later changed it.