He heard from Abū al-Qāsim Ibn al-Sharrāṭ; from Abū al-ʿAbbās Ibn Maḍāʾ, from whom he also studied the principles of jurisprudence; from Abū Khālid Ibn Rifāʿa; from Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn Kawthar; from Ibn al-Fakhkhār; and from ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Ibn Būnah, whom he met in al-Munkab.

He learned the reading of Nāfiʿ and Arabic grammar from Abū Jaʿfar Ibn Yaḥyā.

In Ceuta he heard ḥadīth from Abū Muḥammad Ibn ʿUbayd Allah, and Abū Bakr Ibn al-Jadd, together with the senior scholars, granted him formal authorization.

He was appointed judge of Ubbadha (Úbeda), but when the enemy captured the town in 609 AH they took him prisoner. After gaining his release he became judge of Shāṭiba (Játiva), then of Shirīsh (Jerez), then of Córdoba. He was later returned to the judiciary and Friday pulpit of Shāṭiba, after that to Ceuta, and finally to the judgeship of Fez. He was a man of consummate excellence in both knowledge and practice, competent in several disciplines and distinguished for his eloquence.

“I studied under him in Shāṭiba,” says al-Abbār, ⦗1⦘ “and he records that the shaykh died in Marrakesh in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 651 AH.”

He lived eighty-eight years and was one of the luminaries of his age.

213 – al-Rashīd al-ʿIrāqī, Abū al-Faḍl Ismāʿīl al-Awānī, later of Damascus

He was the son of the eminent Qur’an reciter who settled in Damascus, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿIrāqī, a native of Awāna who later became known as “al-Dimashqī,” a Ḥanbalī and one of the collectors for the Soup Kitchen (Dār al-Ṭuʿm).

He transmitted—by audition and authorization—from al-Silafī, Shuhda, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, the Khaṭīb of Mosul, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Turk, and a number of others.