He scrupulously observed the Qur’an’s letters and applied its limits, earned his livelihood with his own hands, remained self-restrained and devout, enjoined what is right, and for Allah’s sake feared the reproach of no critic.

He tutored children, their fathers, and even their grandfathers.

A great many people recited to him in the various modes; among them was Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Dubaythī, who declared, “What an excellent shaykh!”

He was buried in the portico of Bishr al-Ḥāfī.

I add: those who transmitted from him include Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn Khalīl, al-Taqī al-Yaldānī, al-Najīb al-Ḥarrānī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, and others.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He coached an uncountable multitude, and his bier was borne aloft on shoulders; I never saw a gathering larger than the one at his funeral.”

He further said: “His supplications were answered, he was dignified, and he died on the seventeenth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir in the year 597 AH.”

I also note that among his transmitted works is The Concordance of the Two Ṣaḥīḥs by al-Ḥumaydī, which he received from Abū Isḥāq al-Ghanawī on the authority of the author; al-ʿIzz Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī read it to him in the year six (1).

He granted authorization for his narrations to Aḥmad ibn Salāmah, ʿAlī ibn al-Bukhārī, and a number of others.

171 – Ibn Zuhr, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ayādī

The eminent scholar, the Galen of his age, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Zuhr ibn