2 – Ibn al-Mawwaz, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Iskandarānī

The Imām, the erudite authority, and the jurist of the Egyptian lands: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ziyād al-Iskandarānī, the Mālikī, known as Ibn al-Mawwaz, author of several works.

He acquired the school from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Mājishūn, Aṣbagh ibn al-Faraj, and Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr.

It was also said that he met Ashhab and took from him, but this is not reliably established.

The leadership of the Mālikī school—and full knowledge of its finer points and its broader principles—eventually rested with him.

He produced a substantial legal compilation that was transmitted on his authority by ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maṭar and Ibn Mubashshir.

The last person to report from him was his son, Bakr ibn Muḥammad.

He came to Damascus in the company of the ruler Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn.

It was said that he divested himself (1), adopted an ascetic way of life, and withdrew to one of the Syrian fortresses during his final years until his appointed term overtook him—may Allah Most High have mercy upon him.

Such, then, should be the fruit of knowledge.

Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said: He died in 269 AH.

He narrated from Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr.

I say: This is the sound date of his death; some, however, recorded it as 281 AH (2).