and from that sum he forwarded to my father three thousand dinars, saying, “They are lawful earnings.” Yet my father refused to accept them.

al-Jarawiyyah (1): a village belonging to Tinnīs. The forefather of this man settled there; he was a Jarawī, a descendant of Jarī ibn ʿAwf al-Judhāmī.

132 – al-ʿUtbi, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz*
The jurist of al-Andalus, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUtbah ibn Ḥumayd ibn ʿUtbah ibn Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb, the Umayyad Sufyānid, known as al-ʿUtbi, from Córdoba, a Mālikī, author of the book al-ʿUtbiyyah.

He studied under: Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī, Aṣbagh ibn al-Faraj, Sahnūn ibn Saʿīd, Saʿīd ibn Ḥassān, and others.

Those who transmitted from him include: Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Lubābah and a number of scholars.

Aslam ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam informed me: “I came across some handsomely written volumes called al-Mustakhraja, compiled by your companion Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ʿUtbi (2). I found most of them to be fabrications (3) – questions from his study-sessions for which no sound documentation could be traced.”