He travelled far and wide, and related traditions from ʿUbayd Allah ibn Mūsā, Abū Ghassān Mālik ibn Ismāʿīl, Muʿallā ibn Asad, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Uwaysī, and others of their rank.

Those who narrated from him include ʿUmar ibn Shabbah al-Numayrī—who was older than he—Ibn Sāʿid, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār, and a number of others.

Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “Reliable.”(1)

Al-Khaṭīb remarked: “He was known for his piety and modesty.”(2)

Ibn Qāniʿ recorded: “He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 265 AH.”

45 – Ibn Sahnūn, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Tanūkhī *

The jurist of the Maghrib: Muḥammad Abū ʿAbd Allāh, son of the Maghrib’s jurist ʿAbd al-Salām Sahnūn ibn Saʿīd al-Tanūkhī, of Qayrawān, the leading scholar of the Mālikīs.

He acquired his legal training under his father.

He transmitted hadith from Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī and others of that generation.

He was a hadith master, well-versed in the traditions, of expansive learning, painstaking and precise—an eminent authority of great standing—and he would even debate with his father.

ʿĪsā ibn Miskīn was asked, “Who is the finest young man you have ever seen?” He replied, “Ibn Sahnūn.”