Muḥammad (1). He lived eighty-two years and died in 604 AH (2).
243 – Ibn al-Shaykh, Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Balawī *
The imām, the exemplar, whose supplications were answered: Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ghālib al-Balawī, from Málaga, known as Ibn al-Shaykh.
He received the Qurʾānic readings from Ibn al-Fakhkhār, hearing them from him as well as from al-Suhaylī, Ibn Qarqūl, al-Silafī, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Azdī, and al-ʿUthmānī.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Rabīʿ ibn Sālim, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Qaṭrāl, and Ibn Ḥawṭ Allāh.
He was a godly, devout worshipper of Allah, frequently engaged in expeditions; he was counted among the abdāl and the foremost men of his age.
He mastered the seven canonical readings, taught them, and benefited others.
He died in Málaga at the age of eighty-five, in Ramadan of 604 AH.
244 – al-Nafīs, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Aḥmad **
Al-Qutrusī, the poet, author of the Dīwān: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī