and he was a staunch adherent to the Sunnah, an accomplished jurist of long standing, well-versed in reports and in the chronicles of people, marked by scrupulous piety and God-consciousness, and possessed of an ample store of narrations.

I have seen a treatise of his that lists the transmitters from Mālik. It begins: “Praise belongs to Allah, the Praiseworthy, the Giver of guidance and success. Praise belongs to Allah—the most deserving point of commencement and the worthiest to be thanked—the One, the Eternal Refuge, exalted above all likeness, without peer or equal, enthroned above His Throne yet near through His knowledge….” He continues with the rest of the sermon, but he left no sizeable body of transmissions.

Ibn Ḥazm said: “Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥaḍramī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khulāṣ narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Shaʿbān narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān narrated to me…,” after which he mentioned a weak hadith. Ibn Ḥazm then commented, “Within the Mālikī school, Ibn Shaʿbān is the counterpart of ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ among the Ḥanafīs: either both men’s memories deteriorated, or their books became mixed up.”

Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ said: “Ibn Shaʿbān was the chief of the Mālikīs in Egypt and the most knowledgeable of them regarding the school, with wide-ranging expertise, though he knew little grammar.”

I say: Among those who transmitted from him were Khalaf ibn al-Qāsim ibn Sahlūn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿAṭṭār, and others.

He died in Jumada I, 355 AH.

61 – al-Tujībī, Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Masarra *

The distinguished scholar and Shaykh of the Mālikīs in Córdoba: Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Masarra al-Tujībī, their client, known as al-Kattānī al-Ṭulayṭulī, resident of Córdoba—an exemplary jurist, renowned for his piety.