Ibn Waddāḥ used to say, “He is the one who taught the people of al-Andalus their fiqh.” (1)

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ayman said, “He was more learned in jurisprudence than Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī.” (2)

The jurist Abān ibn ʿĪsā ibn Dīnār related, “My father had firmly resolved to abandon issuing fatwas based on raʾy (personal reasoning) and to prefer giving legal rulings grounded in hadith, but death overtook him before he could do so.” (3)

The author comments: He was one of the great repositories of fiqh, though he transmitted few hadiths.

He died in 212 AH, while still in the prime of middle age—may Allah have mercy on him.

141 – ʿĪsā ibn Abān *

The jurist of Iraq, disciple of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, and judge of Basra.

He narrated from Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, Hushaym, and Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah;

and al-Ḥasan ibn Sallām al-Sawwāq and others narrated from him.

He authored several books, possessed exceptional intelligence, and was famed for his outstanding generosity.

He died in 221 AH.

Bakkār ibn Qutaybah studied under him.