with al-Taysīr; I completed its recitation, yet I did not present the sections dealing with the major idghām (assimilation) to Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn Hudhayl. I read to him Ijāz al-Bayān, al-Talkhīṣ, al-Muḥtawā, and several other works on the variant readings by al-Dānī.
I also listened to him read Jāmiʿ al-Bayān and his Tabaqāt al-Qurrāʾ, and during my recitation he refused to teach according to the major idghām.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn al-Abbār (1) said: “He is the standard-bearer of transmission in eastern al-Andalus. He mastered Arabic under Ibn al-Niʿma. He was proficient, precise, and sparing of worldly pursuits; his chains of transmission were lofty, he was devout and constant in worship, and admonitions filled him with awe. He devoted full care to the science of hadith, had keen insight into it, could name its transmitters, and was diligent in disseminating it. Students undertook journeys to reach him. He was appointed judge of Valencia and Shāṭiba more than once, and he collected a great many hadith books and individual fascicles. I was granted acceptance with him and enjoyed a special standing; most of my early narrations go back to him. He died in Marrakesh on a journey undertaken to have a stipend (2) from the public treasury—after it had been cut off—reinstated. His death occurred on the sixth of Rajab, 614 AH.”
I say: Those who narrated from him the most were Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mushliyūn, Muḥammad ibn Jawbar, Ibn ʿAmīra al-Makhzūmī, and Ibn Masdī, the resident of the Sanctuary. He passed away in his eighties (3), may Allah have mercy on him.
- Ibn Jubayr – Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kinānī
The erudite scholar, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jubayr ibn Muḥammad ibn Jubayr al-Kinānī,