and others who narrated from him were likewise Ibn Khalīl, al-Ḍiyāʾ, and a number of additional transmitters.
He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 603 AH, at the age of seventy-eight.
221 – al-Māksinī, Abū al-Ḥaram Makkī ibn Rayyān *
The erudite authority, master of Arabic, Ṣāʾin ad-Dīn, Abū al-Ḥaram Makkī ibn Rayyān ibn Shabbah (1) ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Māksinī—later known as al-Mawṣilī—was a renowned Qurʾān reciter and was blind.
He lost his sight at the age of eight. After completing the Qurʾān in the seven canonical readings, he travelled to Baghdad and pursued literary studies with Yaḥyā ibn Saʿdūn al-Qurṭubī (2). He then mastered grammar under Ibn al-Khashshāb, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAṣṣār, and Kamāl ad-Dīn al-Anbārī, excelling in the various branches of adab, so much so that the scholars of Mosul graduated under his tutelage.
He was a man of piety and upright conduct, though he displayed an intense partisanship for Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, owing to the fact that both men were distinguished in letters and had been blinded by smallpox.
(*) Yaqut, Irshad al-arib, 7/176; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 12/108; Inba al-ruwat, 3/320-322; al-Takmila by al-Mundhiri, 2, entry no. 981; Abu Shama, Dhayl al-rawdatayn, 58-59; Ibn al-Sa‘i, al-Jami‘, 9/216-217; Wafayat al-a‘yan, 5/278-280; Ibn Fadl Allah, Masalik al-absar, 4/2, fol. 339-345; Tarikh al-Islam, 18/1/149-150; al-‘Ibar, 5/8; Ibn Maktum, Talkhis, fol. 254; Nukat al-humyan, 46; Ghaya al-nihaya, 2/309; Ibn Qadi Shuhba, Tabaqat al-nuhat, fol. 253; al-‘Ayni, ‘Uqd al-juman, 17, fol. 299; Tarikh Ibn al-Furat, 9, fol. 23; Bughyat al-wu‘at, 2/299-300; Shadharat al-dhahab, 5/11.
(1) Abu Shama—followed by Badr al-Din al-‘Ayni—notes that the names of his father and grandfather are sometimes miscopied; the father’s name begins with the undemarcated letter ra, followed by ya, ending with nun, while the grandfather’s name begins with the dotted shin, followed by the single-dotted ba.
(2) He also received the text of al-Muwatta in the transmission of Yahya b. Yahya, yet an error crept into the chain through his teacher Yahya b. Sa‘dun al-Qurtubi, as al-Mundhiri remarks in his Takmila.