and Karrān (1) is a district of Isfahan.

191 – Ibn al-Faras, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī *
The shaykh, the imām, and leading authority of the Mālikī school in Granada during his era: Abū Muḥammad Ibn al-Faras—whose full name is ʿAbd al-Munʿim, son of the imām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad (2) al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī.

He studied under his father and under his grandfather, the distinguished scholar Abū al-Qāsim. He excelled in fiqh and uṣūl, participated in every field of merit, and lived seventy-odd years.

He also received from Abū al-Walīd Ibn Baqwa and Abū al-Walīd Ibn al-Dabbāgh; he completed the recitation of the seven canonical readings with Ibn Hudhayl. Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Makkī and Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn Mawhib granted him ijāza.

In jurisprudence he reached the highest degree.

Abū al-Rabīʿ Ibn Sālim (3) said: “I heard Abū Bakr Ibn al-Jadd—whose testimonial weight is beyond dispute—say more than once: ‘After Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Zarqūn, I know no one in al-Andalus who safeguards the school of Mālik more faithfully than ʿAbd al-Munʿim Ibn al-Faras.’”