and Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Makhramī; and, in Damascus, from Muḥammad ibn Khuraym, Ibn Jawṣā, and several others.

He collected, authored, compiled historical works, benefited his companions, and spent his entire life in the pursuit of knowledge.

Among those who transmitted from him were: his son Tammām; ʿUqayl ibn ʿAbdān; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jahḍam; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Barāmī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr; and others.

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī said, “He was trustworthy, distinguished, and an author. His son told me that he died in 347 AH.”

Al-Fakhr ʿAlī informed us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Harastānī informed us; ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamzah informed us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad informed us; Tammām ibn Muḥammad informed us; my father narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Washshāʾ narrated to us; Abū Maʿmar al-Qaṭīʿī narrated to us; Ibn Idrīs narrated to us, from his father, from Simāk ibn Ḥarb, from ʿIyāḍ al-Ashʿarī, from Abū Mūsā, who said:

A verse was recited in the presence of the Prophet ﷺ: “Then Allah will bring a people whom He loves and who love Him” (al-Māʾidah 5:54). He said, “They are your people—the people of Yemen.” (1)

6 – Khālid ibn Saʿd, Abū al-Qāsim al-Andalusī al-Qurṭubī*

The ḥāfiẓ, the imam, the critic, the master reciter—Abū al-Qāsim al-Andalusī al-Qurṭubī.