Al-Khaṭīb said, “Al-Dayraʿqūlī was reliable, firmly established … he died in Shaʿbān of the year 278 AH.⦗1⦘
I add: In that same year passed away the transmitter of Tiberias, Hāshim ibn Marthad al-Ṭabarānī⦗2⦘; the transmitter of Ḥimṣ, Mūsā ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Mundhir; and the two Baghdād supporters of transmission: Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Washshāʾ⦗3⦘—a disciple of Ibn ʿUlayyah—and Muḥammad ibn Shaddād⦗4⦘, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mismaʿī—an associate of Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān—as well as Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Nāṣiḥ⦗5⦘ the grammarian, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Haytham al-Baladī⦗6⦘, and the crown prince Abū Aḥmad al-Muwaffaq⦗7⦘.
155 – Al-Maghāmī, Abū ʿAmr Yūsuf ibn Yaḥyā al-Azdī *
The eminent scholar, jurist-consult, and dean of the Mālikīs—Abū ʿAmr Yūsuf ibn Yaḥyā al-Azdī, the Andalusian Córdoban Mālikī, known as “al-Maghāmī”—was one of the leading authorities of his age.
Some leading scholars traced his lineage, saying: “He is Yūsuf ibn Yaḥyā ibn Yūsuf ibn …”