In that same year passed away: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Qāsim al-Kawkabī; the vizier Abū al-Fatḥ al-Faḍl ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥinzābah; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Kharāʾiṭī; the imām Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥātim; and Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdawayh al-Marwazī al-Fāzī.
49 – Aḥmad ibn Baqī ibn Makhlad, Abū ʿUmar al-Qurṭubī * (1)
A leading scholar of al-Andalus and the judge of Cordova.
Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ said, “He heard only from his father.”
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said, “He was dignified and gentle, frequently reciting the Quran night and day. He had a firm grasp of the differences among the scholars. He held the judgeship for ten years during which—so it is said—he ordered the flogging of only one man, a person whose profligacy was unanimously agreed upon. He was cautious and deliberate, and he would say: ‘Deliberation…’”
(=) See 7/107 for the various chains transmitted from Abu Ishaq with this isnad. It is supported by a narration of Ibn Abbas recorded by Ahmad 1/250, Ibn Majah (1880), and al-Bayhaqi 7/109-110; by a second corroboration from Aisha in Ahmad 6/47, 66, 165, al-Darimi 2/137, Abu Dawud (2083, 2084), al-Tirmidhi (1102), Ibn Majah (1879, 1880), Ibn al-Jarud (700), Ibn Hibban (1248), al-Daraqutni 3/221, al-Hakim 2/168, al-Bayhaqi 7/105, and al-Tayalisi (1463); by a third from Abu Hurayra in Ibn Hibban (1246); and by a fourth from Jabir reported by al-Tabarani, as cited in Majmaʽ al-zawaʾid 4/286. See also Ibn Hajar, Talkhis al-habir 3/156-157.
(*) Qudat Qurtuba, pp. 163-171; Tarikh ʿUlamaʾ al-Andalus 1/33; Jadhwat al-muqtabis, p. 110; Bughyat al-multamis, p. 172; al-Muntazam 6/283; al-ʿIbar 2/200-201; al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat 6/266; Tarikh Qudat al-Andalus, pp. 63-65; al-Dibaj al-madhhab, p. 37; Shadharat al-dhahab 2/301.
(1) The author will repeat this biographical notice on p. 241 of the present volume.