Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī and others of their rank. He kept close company with al-Bukhārī.
Those who transmitted from him were: Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī—whose chain was higher than his—Muḥammad ibn Abyad, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-ʿUqaylī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ward, and others. Al-Nasāʾī’s report from him is found in the book al-Kunā. He is one of the scholars whom al-Ḥākim failed to mention in his History of Naysābūr. He died in Egypt, in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 294 AH. He was counted among the sharp-sighted authorities in this field.
48 – Ibn al-Ṣaffār, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ghālib al-Qurṭubī*
A mufti of al-Andalus alongside Ibn Lubābah and ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā. He travelled in pursuit of knowledge and studied under Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Miṣrī, Yūnus, the nephew of Ibn Wahb, al-ʿUtbī, and Ibn Waḍḍāḥ. He died in 295 AH.
He is Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ghālib al-Qurṭubī, known as Ibn al-Ṣaffār. His son—the distinguished jurist-mufti Abū al-Walīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad—died in 301 AH while still in the prime of life.