Among his other teachers in Qur’anic recitation he read to Abū al-Ḥakam ibn Ḥajjāj, Abū Bakr al-Nayyār, and a number of Shurayḥ’s pupils, using the manual al-Kāfī. Accordingly, in al-Kāfī he is placed in the same tier as Imām al-Shāṭibī. Ibn Wathīq’s own audition before his shaykh Ḥabīb took place in 597 AH.
He travelled extensively and taught Qur’an in Mosul, in greater Syria, and along the frontier. Those who recited to him include Shaykh ʿImād al-Dīn ibn Abī Zahrān, al-Nūr ʿAlī ibn Ẓuḥayr al-Kafanī, Yaḥyā ibn Faḍāʾil al-Iskandarānī, and a number of others—among them our two shaykhs al-Fakhr al-Tawzarī and Muḥammad ibn Jawhar al-Talaʿfarī. Abū Bakr ibn Masdī praised his merits, then took a swipe at him, saying, “I noticed in him confusion and derivations devoid of truthfulness and precision.”
He then added, “Ibn Wathīq recited poetry to us before his faculties became impaired.”
I say: Those who transmitted from him include al-Rashīd al-ʿAṭṭār, the hadith scholar Manṣūr ibn Salīm, al-Makīn al-Asmar, and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Dumrāwī.
He died (1) in 654 AH.
212 – Ibn Qutrāl, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī al-Qurṭubī *
The judge, eminent scholar, and exemplar: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yūsuf al-Anṣārī al-Qurṭubī, a Mālikī.
Born: 563 AH.