—do not dispute with me over something like this! Should I not rise for a descendant of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf? (1)

Ibn Ṣāʿid said: “He was reliable.”

Ibn al-Munādī said: “He died in Muḥarram of the year 273 AH—may Allah have mercy on him.”

I (the author) say: Imām Aḥmad showed him such respect because of his noble pedigree, his piety, and his merit. When a person unites righteous deeds with sound knowledge, what excellence could surpass that!

58 – Abū Yūnus al-Jumaḥī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad*

The mufti of Medina, the Imām: Abū Yūnus Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Qurashī, al-Jumaḥī, al-Madanī, the jurist, follower of the Mālikī school.

He acquired jurisprudence from the disciples of Mālik.

He transmitted ḥadīth from Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-Farwī, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir, Abū Muṣʿab, Bishr ibn ʿUbayṣ al-ʿAṭṭār, and a number of others.

Those who narrated from him include Zakariyyā al-Sājī, Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī the genealogist, Abū Bishr al-Dūlābī, Abū ʿAwāna al-Isfarāyīnī, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Daybulī (2), and others.

Abū Ḥātim said: “He was truthful; he served as the mufti of Medina.”