nor could their original authorities be identified. I feared that death might overtake me and the volumes be discovered among my estate, so I donated them to anyone who cared to read them.

I said to him, “How did you deem it lawful to give them to him so that he might read in them (1)?” He remained silent.

Ibn Lubābah remarked, “Al-ʿUtbī has no true lineage; he merely had a forefather named ʿUtbah—that is all.”

Ibn al-Faradī said: “He travelled and studied under Sahnūn, Aṣbagh, and their peers. He possessed an excellent memory for legal questions, gathered them diligently, and was thoroughly acquainted with emergent issues. He compiled al-Mustakhraja, but filled it with numerous discarded reports and eccentric opinions (2). He died in 255 AH; some say in 254.”

133 – Ibn Nadhīr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿĪsā al-Umayyad *

The Muftī of al-Andalus, Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿĪsā ibn Nadhīr (3), an Umayyad client, from Córdoba, a Mālikī jurist.

He performed the pilgrimage and received knowledge from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the Qurʾān-reciter, Mutarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Yasārī, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Mājishūn, and their contemporaries.