Ibn Wahb; he also encountered Ibn al-Qasim while still a youth, so—through his father’s attentiveness—he may have taken a small amount from him. Allah knows best.

As for Ashhab’s invoking death upon al-Shafiʿi, that is merely the sort of disparaging talk contemporaries sometimes aim at one another; it is of no consequence. What befits us is to ask Allah’s mercy for each of them and to seek forgiveness on their behalf. Such exchanges have long existed, beginning after the death of ʿUmar (1) and continuing to incidents we ourselves have witnessed. Indeed, ʿUmar was once described as “the padlock that kept the door of tribulation shut.”

191 – Ishaq ibn al-Furat, Abu Nuʿaym al-Tujibi * (S)

A towering imam, the leading jurist and judge of Egypt, Abu Nuʿaym al-Tujibi—their freedman—an Egyptian and a direct disciple of Imam Malik, and in no way inferior to Ibn al-Qasim.

He transmitted from Humayd ibn Haniʾ—his earliest shaykh—, Yahya ibn Ayyub, al-Layth, Malik, and others.

Among those who narrated from him are: Abu al-Tahir ibn al-Sarh, Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman Bahshal, Bahr ibn Nasr al-Khawlani, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Hakam, and many more.

It is related that al-Shafiʿi said, “I have never seen anyone more knowledgeable of the points of disagreement among the scholars than Ishaq ibn al-Furat.” (2)