He died (1) in Damascus in 646 AH.
169 – al-Laradī, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn ʿAtīq ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah *
The erudite scholar and ḥāfiẓ, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn ʿAtīq ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥumayd al-Tujībī, an Andalusian from Granada, a Mālikī, better known as al-Laradī, and the author of a number of works.
He transmitted ḥadith from his father, Abū Bakr; from Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥamīd; and from several others.
He lived for eighty-three years (2).
Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Abbār (3) said: He was appointed judge, and among his writings are: Anwār al-Ṣabāḥ, a synopsis combining the six canonical collections; Kitāb Shamāʾil al-Mukhtār; Kitāb al-Nukat al-Kāfiya fī Aḥādīth Masāʾil al-Khilāf; Kitāb Minhāj al-ʿAmal fī Ṣināʿat al-Jadal; and Kitāb al-Masālik al-Nūriyya ilā al-Maqāmāt al-Ṣadafiyya.
He died in 646 (4)—or 647— AH.
(1) Ibn Abi Usaybiʿa, al-Dhahabi in both his History and al-ʿIbar, Ibn Shakir and others report that he died in Shaʿban.
(*) Supplement to Ibn al-Abar’s Kitab al-Sila, 2/661–662, no. 1685; al-Dhayl wa-takmila li-kitab al-mawsul wa-l-sila, 6/429–430, no. 1147; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam (Aya Sofya MS 3013), vol. 20, fol. 71; al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat, 4/80, no. 1539, where his lineage is given as Muhammad b. ʿAtiq b. ʿAbd Allah (omitting his grandfather ʿAli); al-ʿAsjad al-masbuk, p. 569.
(2) Tarikh al-Islam records his birth in Safar 563 A.H.
(3) Supplement to Kitab al-Sila, 2/661–662.
(4) Ibn al-Abar does not state his date of death; he merely places him among those who died in 646 A.H. Al-Marrakushi, in the Dhayl wa-sila, says he died in Granada thirteen nights before the end of Rajab 637 A.H., while Abu ʿAli Ibn al-Nazir gives 638 A.H. Al-Dhahabi observes in his History that he remained alive until…