314 – Aslam ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Hāshim ibn Khālid al-Umawī—
A towering scholar, ḥadith master, and Chief Justice of al-Andalus. He was Abū al-Jaʿd al-Umawī, a client of the Umayyads, Andalusian, Cordoban, a jurist of the Mālikī school, and one of the eminent authorities, descended from Abān, the client of ʿUthmān (Allah be pleased with him).
He set out in quest of knowledge in 260 AH.
He studied under Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, Abū Ibrāhīm al-Muzanī, al-Rabīʿ al-Murādī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, and others. He returned home with elevated chains of transmission, abundant learning, and remained in the company of Baqī ibn Makhlad for a long time.
He was an imām, jurist, ḥadith scholar, leader, noble, greatly respected, and widely renowned.
He held the office of Qadāʾ al-Jamāʿah (1) under al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh. His conduct was commendable, and he was strict with dubious witnesses. He was the brother of Hāshim ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.
A number of scholars narrated from him.
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said: He died in Rajab, 319 AH.