but he was not his son; rather, ʿAlī was the elder, for he had met al-Junayd and had heard ḥadīth from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī and from Abū Khalīfa, who was known as al-Ṣayrafī. He conducted dictation sessions for a time, and al-Ḥākim narrated from him and deemed him reliable. He drowned in 357 AH.

75 – Maslamah ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū al-Qāsim al-Qurṭubī*, a ḥadīth scholar and inveterate traveller, an Andalusian from Córdoba.

He heard traditions from Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Lubābah and Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Jabbāb; in Qayrawān from Aḥmad ibn Mūsā al-Tammār and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Fuṭays; in Tripoli from Ṣāliḥ ibn al-ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī; in Egypt from Muḥammad ibn Abān and Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī; in Mecca from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Daybulī; in Wāsiṭ from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubashshir; and in Baghdad from Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād. He also collected material in Basra, Yemen, and Greater Syria. He returned to his homeland with a considerable store of knowledge, yet he was not regarded as trustworthy.

Ibn al-Farḍī said, “I heard some people accuse him of fabrication.” Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Mufarrij told me, “He was not a liar; rather, his intellect was weak,” adding, “and some reprehensible anthropomorphic statements have been preserved from him.”

Ibn al-Farḍī further stated, “He died in 353 AH.” I (the author) say: I take it he was in his sixties.