I add: al-Nūrī(1) fled to al-Raqqa.
Ibn Kāmil said: “Ghulām Khalīl died in the month of Rajab, in the year 275 AH. The markets were shut, and both men and women went out to perform the funeral prayer over him. He was then borne in a coffin to Basra, where a domed shrine was erected over his grave.
“He was eloquent and precise in his Arabic, possessed a vast store of knowledge, used to dye his beard with henna, and lived on nothing but plain broad beans.(2)”
137 – Bakīʿ ibn Makhlad ibn Yazīd, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Andalusī
The Imām, the exemplar, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Andalusī al-Qurṭubī, the ḥāfiẓ, author of the Tafsīr and the Musnad the like of which have no equal.
He was born around the year 200 AH, or slightly before.
He studied under: Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bukayr, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Aʿshā, Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Munḏir al-Ḥizāmī, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Zuhayr ibn ʿAbbād al-Ruʾāsī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr, and Aḥmad ibn