Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd ibn Qāyid—spelled with a qāf—al-Hilālī, a native of the Maghrib and Mālikī in jurisprudence.
He was born around the year 549 AH in al-Rīgh, a district in the south of the Maghrib, and came to Egypt while still a youth, where he applied himself to the study of law.
Al-Silafī granted him an authorization to transmit, and he heard hadith from Ibn Barrī, Ibn ʿAwf, and Abū Muḥammad al-Shāṭibī—from the latter he heard the Muwaṭṭaʾ.
Some say that al-Rīgh belonged to the province of Qasṭīliyya in the land of al-Jarīd.
He produced an important work on linguistics and was able to write in both the Maghribī and the Mashriqī hands.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Mundhirī, Ibn al-ʿImādiyya, al-Dimyāṭī, and others.
He studied jurisprudence under Abū al-Qāsim ibn Jārah, Baʿlī al-Ṭūsī, and Ibn Abī al-Manṣūr.
Devout, scrupulous, and just, he feared no blame for the sake of Allah. Al-Kāmil was proud of him and believed in his blessing. He became both preacher and judge without ever seeking either post; after many years he resigned the pulpit, then relinquished the judgeship, saying, “Leave me to serve my Lord.”
It is related that he closed his inkwell and said, “O Allah, if You know that I have been duplicitous in any verdict, then burn me for it in Hell; but if You know that a verdict was imposed upon me, You are the One most entitled to excuse.”
He remained on the bench for more than forty years.
He died on 28 Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 645 AH, one year after leaving the judiciary.

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