until old age overtook him; he then remained in his home. He was thoroughly versed in points of consensus and disagreement, and he inclined toward weighing the evidence and exercising fairness.

I say: Among those who related from him was the long-lived Abū Muḥammad ibn Hārūn, who wrote to us from the Maghrib granting ijāza, as well as other scholars.

Those who transmitted from him by written licence include Muḥammad ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Khazrajī, the preacher Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Aysar al-Judhāmī, the man of letters Abū al-Ḥakam Mālik ibn al-Murahhal, and others besides.

He—may Allah have mercy on him—was generally inclined toward the school of the traditionists and literalists in his views and legal judgments.

Among his transmitters were the erudite Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ, and, by ijāza, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾmināʾī al-Fāsī.

ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Ṭāʾī, the jurist, authorised us in narration and said: "Ahmad ibn Yazīd, the judge, informed us; from Shurayḥ ibn Muḥammad, the Qurʾān-reciter; from the jurist Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥazm; from Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; from Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh; from Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAbsi; from Wakīʿ; from al-Aʿmash; from Abū Ṣāliḥ; from Abū Hurayrah—who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Fasting is a shield.” (1)

Ibn Baqī was born in the year 537 AH.

He died on Friday, after the congregational prayer, in mid-Ramaḍān of the year 625 AH in Cordoba, having exceeded eighty-eight years of age—may Allah have mercy on him—and he was the last of