al-Makhīlī (1), the Mālikī jurist, one of the eminent figures of the frontier region.
Makhīl is a locality in the province of Barqah.
He was born in 568 (2) AH.
He received hadith from al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Silafī, Abū Ṭāhir ibn ʿAwf, and Abū al-Ṭayyib ibn al-Khulūf.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Sabtī, al-Dimyāṭī, al-Abarqūhī, Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Ṣiqillī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Munīr, the exegete Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Naqīb, and others.
Ibn al-Ḥājib said: “He told me that he entered Damascus.”
I say: He passed away on the seventh (3) of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 642 AH.
I read this before Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān the exegete and ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf the ḥāfiẓ, and they said:
Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Iṣbahānī informed us; Naṣr ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-ʿUkbarī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar al-Ṭāʾī narrated to us; the father of my grandfather ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb narrated to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated, from ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, from Zirr, from ʿAlī, who said:
“The words most beloved to Allah are that a servant says while prostrating: ‘My Lord, I have wronged myself—my Lord…’”