246 – Ibn Sayf, ʿAbd Allah ibn Mālik ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Tujībī
The imam and eminent Qur’an reciter, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allah ibn Mālik ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Sayf al-Tujībī, was a close disciple of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Azraq and the last of those who read to him.
He also narrated ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ and others.
Those who studied the Qur’an with him include: Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Marwān; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zahrawī; Abū ʿAdī ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Imām; a shaykh of al-Ahwāzī named Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Qāsim al-Khirqī; and many others.
Tāhir ibn Ghalbūn referred to him as “Muḥammad.” (1)
He passed away in Egypt, in Jumādā II of the year 307 AH.
We possess his transmission in the Warsh reading through a high-level chain.
247 – al-Baghawī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz*
ibn al-Marzubān ibn Sābūr ibn
(*) Ibn Kathir, al-ʿIbar, 2:134; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Qurra, 1:188; al-Jazari, Tabaqat al-Qurra, 1:445; Ibn al-Jazari, al-Nashr fi al-Qiraʾat al-ʿAshr, 1:114; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:251.
(1) Ibn al-Jazari states in Ghayat al-Nihaya 1:445: “Abu al-Tayyib ibn Ghalbun erred by naming him Muhammad; his son Abu al-Hasan and those who followed them repeated the mistake.”
(**) Ibn ʿAdi, al-Kamil, 3:228b; Ibn al-Nadim, al-Fihrist, p. 325; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, 10:111–117; Ibn Abi Yaʿla, Tabaqat al-Hanabila, 1:190–192; al-Samʿani, al-Ansab, fol. 86b; Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam, 6:227–230; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh, 8:161; Ibn ʿAbd al-Hadi, Mukhtasar Tabaqat ʿUlama al-Hadith, fol. 127/1; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 2:737–740; Ibn Kathir, al-ʿIbar, 2:170; al-Dhahabi, Duwal al-Islam, 1:192; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 2:492–493; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 11:163–164; al-Jazari, Tabaqat al-Qurra, 1:450; Ibn Hajar, Lisan al-Mizan, 3:338–341; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-Zahira, 3:226; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, pp. 312–313; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:275–276; Muhammad ʿAjaj al-Khatib, al-Risala al-Mustatrafah, p. 78.