His family hailed from Marw.
He died in Samarqand in 335 AH.
In that same year passed away: the Shāfiʿī elder Ibn al-Qāṣṣ, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Abī Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī, later of Baghdad and a companion of Ibn Surayj; the imam Abū ʿUmar Ḥamzah ibn al-Qāsim al-Hāshimī; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Mahruwayh al-Qazwīnī; the long-lived Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ṣayrafī al-Maṭīrī of Baghdad; and the scholar Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣūlī al-Baghdādī.
184 – Ibn al-Labbād, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Wishāḥ al-Lakhmī
A leading scholar and the mufti of the Maghrib, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Wishāḥ al-Lakhmī, their client, African by origin, known as Ibn al-Labbād.
A disciple of Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar (1) on whose teaching he relied, he was an ocean of learning.
He composed “The Infallibility of the Prophets,” a book on “Purification,” and “The Merits of Mālik,” and from his instruction eminent imams graduated.
His supplications were answered and he enjoyed great stature.
Abū Muḥammad Ibn Abī Zayd acquired his fiqh from him.
The Banū ʿUbayd barred him from teaching and issuing legal opinions until he died in Ṣafar 333 AH.