then the judgeship of Valencia, where I met him, and he passed away while still serving as judge of Málaga on 6 Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 621 AH.

Ibn Masdī—who also transmitted from him—said: “I never saw more people weep at any funeral than at his, and his bier was carried aloft on men’s palms.”

126 – Ibn ʿAbd al-Samīʿ, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Qurashī
The just, trustworthy imam; master Qur’an reciter and expert in tajwīd; hadith scholar; and leading authority of Wāsiṭ: Abū Ṭālib ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Samīʿ ibn Abī Tammām ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Samīʿ al-Qurashī, al-Hāshimī, al-Wāsitī—whose reliability was affirmed.

Born: 538 AH.

He recited the Qur’an under Abū al-Saʿādāt Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī and Abū Ḥumayd ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Samātī.

He heard hadith from his grandfather, from Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Zanbaqa, and from many others in Wāsiṭ; also from Wahbah Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Shiblī, Ibn al-Baṭṭī, Ibn Tāj al-Qurrāʾ, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir, and several others.

He wrote, collected, compiled, and transmitted extensively; he was eminent, noble, learned, trustworthy, and precise in transmission.

Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Ṭāhir ibn al-Anmāṭī and ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Abī al-Jayš,