Among those who transmitted from him were al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Qūṣī, al-Barzālī, Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ibn Abī ʿUmar, and al-Fakhr ʿAlī. We also heard, by way of his written authorization, from Abū Ḥafṣ ibn al-Qawwās. His handwriting is large, handsome, and elegant; I own several fascicles penned in his own hand.
In that same year there died: Abū al-Yumn al-Kindī; the lord of Aleppo, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir; the judge Thiqat al-Mulk ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mujallī al-Miṣrī; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī al-Zuhrī al-Ishbīlī, known as the companion of Shurayḥ; and al-Ṣāʾin ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ismāʿīl al-Dimyāṭī.
- Ibn Wājib, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Qaysī
The shaykh, the imām, the scholar, the precise hadith master, the exemplar, Shaykh al-Islam: Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, grandson of the imām Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Wājib ibn ʿUmar ibn Wājib al-Qaysī, an Andalusian from Valencia and a Mālikī.
He was born in 537 AH.
He received written authorization from the judge Abū Bakr ibn al-ʿArabī and the ḥāfiẓ Yūsuf ibn al-Dabbāgh. He caught up with Abū Marwān ibn Quzmān and heard from him, and he narrated chiefly from his grandfather and from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Hudhayl—to whom he also recited the Qur’an—as well as from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Niʿmah, Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿādah, Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Faras, Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, Ibn Bashkuwāl, Ibn Zarqūn, and others.
I have read in a Fihris written in Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Ibn Wājib’s own hand: “I recited…”