Among the works that Ibn al-Zubayr had heard in full is al-Nasaʾi’s al-Sunan al-Kabir, which he received from Abu al-Hasan al-Shari on the basis of the latter’s complete audition of the book from Ibn ʿUbayd Allah. The chain runs as follows: Abu Jaʿfar al-Baṭruji narrated to us; Ibn al-Tallaʿ informed us; Ibn Mughith informed us; Muhammad ibn Muʿawiyah ibn al-Ahmar informed us, from al-Nasaʾi.
Ibn Rushayd said: Al-Shari kept learning alive in Ceuta both while he lived and after his death; he acquired books for the highest prices and enjoyed great prestige in people’s hearts—may Allah have mercy on him.
He also said: Among those who narrated from him was our shaykh Abu Faris ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Ibrahim, with the transmission of al-Bukhari, which he had himself heard from its transmitters—among them Ibn ʿUbayd Allah, whose audition he obtained in the year ninety—from Shurayh, who said:
Our shaykh Abu Faris likewise transmitted it by ijaza (formal authorization) from Abu Nasr al-Shirazi, from Abu al-Waqt.
187 – Al-Sibt Abu al-Qasim ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Makki al-Tarabulusi *
The shaykh, senior transmitter, and long-lived authority: Abu al-Qasim ʿAbd al-Rahman, son of the scribe Makki ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi Saʿid ibn ʿAtiq, known as Jamal al-Din, originally from Tripoli and later of Alexandria, grandson (sibt) of the hadith scholar Abu Tahir (1).
He heard extensively from his grandfather and attended his sessions frequently during his fourth decade, and I never saw him present at any gathering before that.
His birth: the year seventy.
He also heard a section from Ibn Muqa and from Badr al-Hudhadhadhi,