38 – al-Zuhrī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Ishbīlī *
The musnid of al-Andalus, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Zuhrī al-Ishbīlī.
He received the transmission of al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ from Abū al-Ḥasan Shurayḥ ibn Muḥammad in 534 AH (1). He lived to an advanced age, possessed unique chains of transmission, and scholars competed to learn from him.
Among those who narrated from him was the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr ibn Sayyid al-Nās.
He died late in 613 AH (2).
Another report (3) claims that he remained alive until 615, but this is not reliable.
His own shaykh transmits the Ṣaḥīḥ through a single intermediary from the ḥāfiẓ Abū Dharr.
39 – ʿAbd al-Salām, son of the jurist ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, son of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī **
al-Rukn, Abū
(*) Ibn al-Abar, Takmila, 3 / fol. 15 (Azhar volume); al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 113 (Aya Sofya 3011).
(1) He attended the lesson in person while his father was teaching, which places his birth shortly before 530 AH.
(2) Ibn al-Abar reports this on the authority of his associate Abu Bakr Ibn Sayyid al-Nas.
(3) The statement comes from Ibn Masdi’s Muʿjam, as the author himself notes in the margin of Tarikh al-Islam.
(* *) Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 12 / 126; Ibn al-Dubaythi, Tarikh, fol. 142 (Paris 5922); Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, Mirat al-Zaman, 8 / 571; al-Mundhiri, Takmila, 2 / entry 1348; Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, 88; Abu al-Fida, al-Mukhtasar, 3 / 122; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fols. 187–188 (Paris 1582); al-Mukhtasar al-Muhtaj Ilayh, fol. 76; Ibn Hajar, Fawat al-Wafayat, 1 / 571; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya, 13 / 68; Ibn Rajab, Dhayl, 2 / 71–73; al-Ayni, Aqd al-Juman, 17 / fols. 346–349; Qalaʾid al-Tadhifi, 45; al-Sakhawi, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 5 / 45–46; al-Samhudi, al-Taj al-Mukallal, 223.