He added: “He also authored the Musnad of Mālik ibn Anas, the Book of Prayer, the Book of Faith, and the Book of the Stories of the Prophets (1).”
He died in Jumada al-Ākhirah, 322 AH.
Some have said, “Al-Andalus has produced no ḥāfiẓ equal to Ibn al-Jabbāb and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr.”
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Ahmad ibn Baqī (2) ibn Makhlad al-Qurṭubī
Chief Judge of the community, the eminent scholar, Abū ʿUmar al-Qurṭubī—one of the leading imams in knowledge, intellect, and dignity. He transmitted a large body of reports from his father, served as judge for ten years, and his conduct was praised. He died in the course of 324 AH in Córdoba, at the age of seventy or a little more—may Allah Most High have mercy on him.
96 – Ibn Ayman, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Qurṭubī *
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, luminary, Shaykh of al-Andalus and its foremost transmitter in his day, Abū ʿAbd