al-Taylasānī al-Anṣārī al-Qurṭubī; and Abū al-Ḍawʾ Qamar ibn Hilāl ibn Baṭāḥ al-Qaṭīʿī, the greengrocer; and al-Nafīs Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Rawāḥa al-Ḥamawī, the blind scholar; and the man of letters Muhadhdhab al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāmghārī al-Ḥillī, a poet active in Egypt during the first decade of the century; and the ruler of Ḥamā, al-Muẓaffar Taqī al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn al-Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Ayyūbī; and al-Najīb Nāṣir ibn Manṣūr al-ʿArḍī; and Jamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn al-Makhīlī. (1)
87 – Ibn al-Taylasān, Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī
The ḥāfiẓ, the reliable authority, the hadith scholar of al-Andalus: Abū al-Qāsim Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī al-Qurṭubī.
Born: approximately 575 AH.
He transmitted hadith from his maternal grandfather Abū al-Qāsim Ibn al-Sharrāṭ, from Abū al-ʿAbbās Ibn Miqdām, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Khazarajī, Abū al-Ḥakam Ibn Ḥajjāj, and many others.
He authored several works and was well versed in the Qur’an’s variant readings as well as in Arabic. After the fall of Córdoba he became the Friday preacher of Málaga, where he taught and related hadith.