and he possessed two small fascicles that al-Silafī transmitted; one of them has come down to us with a continuous chain.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ruzqawayh, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd the oil-seller, and Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān.
He lived for eighty years and died in Shaʿbān of the year 346 AH.

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Abū al-Ḥazm al-Tamīmī, the Andalusian, al-Ḥijārī, the Mālikī jurist, ḥadith scholar, and prolific author.
He was born around 260 AH.
In Córdoba he heard ḥadith from: Muḥammad ibn Waḍḍāḥ the ḥadith master, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, Aḥmad ibn al-Rāḍī, and Abū ʿUthmān al-Aʿnāqī.
In Wādī al-Ḥijārah—a town that has since passed into enemy hands—he heard from Muḥammad ibn ʿAzrah and Abū Wahb ibn Abī Nukhaylah.
He transmitted the Musnad of Ibn Abī Shaybah on the authority of Ibn Waḍḍāḥ.
He was a leading figure in jurisprudence, highly knowledgeable in ḥadith and its transmitters, renowned for scrupulousness and piety; the issuing of legal opinions in his region revolved around him. He composed numerous books and treatises. They brought him to Córdoba, and manuscripts were presented to him