He also mastered the seven canonical readings, which he recited to Ibn Ṣāf; in Mecca he read them before one of the pupils of Abū al-ʿIzz al-Qalānsī, and in Mosul before Ibn Saʿdūn.
He heard a large number of narrations from Ibn ʿAsākir, Abū Naṣr al-Yūsufī, Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī, and many others.
He copied a great deal of material.
He was devout, upright, constant in worship of Allah, and highly proficient in the various modes of Qurʾanic recitation.
Among those who transmitted from him were his two sons—Tāj al-Dīn Muḥammad and Ismāʿīl—together with Ibn Khalīl, al-Shihāb al-Qūṣī, and several others.
He also granted a teaching licence to Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr (1).
Fanaq is one of the districts of Córdoba (2).
He died in Ramadan 596 AH—may Allah have mercy on him.
161 – al-ʿIrāqī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr ibn al-Musallam *
The distinguished scholar, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr ibn al-Musallam (3), an Egyptian,
(1) He also granted an ijaza to Muhibb al-Din Ibn al-Najjar al-Baghdadi, as Safadi reports in al-Wafi.
(2) Al-Mundhiri spells the nisba explicitly: Wafank—fa and nun both with fatha, ending with a kaf; it denotes a fortress or village belonging to the province of Cordoba. Yaqut does not list it in Mu jam al-Buldan, and al-Sam ani cites no person deriving from it in his Ansab, so Ibn al-Athir supplied the entry in al-Lubab, 2/225.
(*) Biographical notices may be found in: al-Mundhiri, Takmila, no. 532; Ibn al-Sabuni, Takmila, 296; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, 1/33; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 90 (Paris 1582); al-Ibar, 4/291; al-Safadi, al-Wafi, 6/151; al-Yafi i, Mirat al-Jinan, 3/484; al-Subki, Tabaqat, 7/37; al-Maqrizi, al-Suluk, part 1, p. 153; Ibn al-Furat, Tarikh, 8, fol. 73; al-Suyuti, Husn al-Muhadara, 1/190; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat, 4/223; Haji Khalifa, Sullam al-Wusul, fol. 35.
(3) Ibn Khallikan vocalises the name as we have done—mim with damma and lam with shadda; al-Dhahabi does not mention him in …