Al-Abbār (1) said: “His father had him listen to ḥadīth while he was still a boy and took him along on his journeys; that bequeathed to him unusual acuity.”

Ibn Sālim remarked: “He is the shaykh, the prolific transmitter, upright and trustworthy—Abū Muḥammad al-Gharnāṭī. I received instruction from him.”

He passed away in al-Munakab in the year 587 AH, having lived eighty-three years.

149 – Ibn Maʾmūn, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Umayyad

The imām, master Qurʾān reciter, tajwīd specialist, grammarian, ḥadīth scholar, and judge of Valencia: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥumayd (2) ibn Maʾmūn al-Umayyad, a client of the Umayyads, originally from Valencia and later from Granada.

He studied the Qurʾānic readings with Ibn Hadhayl, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Thābit, Abū al-Ḥasan Shurayḥ ibn Muḥammad, and Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Samurah (3).

In Jaén he learned the linguistic sciences from Abū Bakr ibn Masʿūd al-Khashanī, and he heard