He was the last person to transmit from Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khamees. Among those who narrated from him were Ibn Khalīl, al-Taqī al-Yaldānī, and a number of others whom al-Dimyāṭī met (1). He died in the middle of Muḥarram, 595 AH.
160 – Abū Jaʿfar al-Qurṭubī Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAtīq *
The imam, Qurʾān reciter, and ḥadith scholar Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Bakr ʿAtīq ibn Ismāʿīl al-Andalusī, al-Fanakī, a Shāfiʿī, settled in Damascus; he was the leading imam of the Kallāsah Mosque (2) and the father of its current imam.
He was born in 528 AH.
In Córdoba he heard from the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Walīd Ibn al-Dabbāgh the book al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, read aloud by his own father, sometime after 540 AH, through Ibn al-Dabbāgh’s audition from al-Khawlānī, who in turn had heard it from al-Qabḥaṭālī.
…the letters. Al-Dhahabi observes in al-Mushtabih: “It is written with two undotted consonants separated by a ya: Abu Mansur Muslim b. Ali b. al-Sayhi al-Mawsili, the transmitter of the Musnad of al-Maafa from Abu’l-Barakat b. Khamis. We heard it from al-Baha b. al-Nahhas, who took it from Ibn Khalil, from him.” The entry was indexed by Ibn Nuqtah.
(1) I.e. Sharaf al-Din Abd al-Mumin b. Khalaf, d. 705/1305.
(*) His biography is given by: Ibn al-Abar, al-Takmila, 1/90; al-Mundhiri, Takmila, no. 545; Abu Shama, al-Dhayl, 17; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 90 (Paris 1582), Maʿrifat al-Qurraʾ, fol. 180, al-Iʿlam, fol. 211, and al-ʿIbar, 4/291; al-Safadi, al-Wafi, 7/205; Ibn al-Mulqin, al-ʿIqd al-Mudhhab, fol. 161; Ibn al-Jazari, Ghaya al-Nihaya, 2/205; al-ʿAyni, ʿAqd al-Juman, 17/fol. 247; Ibn Taghri Birdi, al-Nujum, 6/158; Ibn al-Ghazzi, al-Diwan, fol. 227; and Ibn al-Imad, al-Shadharat, 4/323.
Abu Jaʿfar is the very reciter who was summoned to read the Quran on the night of Sultan Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi’s death and was asked to prompt him with the testimony of faith, as noted above in the Sultan’s biography.
(2) Refers to the Kallasa madrasa; al-Safadi reports that he used to lead the prayer there.