As for Qur’anic exegesis, the foremost authorities are the people of Mecca, because they were the students of Ibn ʿAbbas—figures such as Mujahid, ʿAtaʾ ibn Abi Rabah, ʿIkrima the client of Ibn ʿAbbas, and other disciples of Ibn ʿAbbas like Tawus, Abu l-Shaʿthaʾ, Saʿid ibn Jubayr, and their peers. The people of Kufa, who learned from Ibn Masʿud, likewise possessed a distinctive share of this knowledge that set them apart from others. Among the scholars of Medina in tafsir was Zayd ibn Aslam, from whom Malik acquired his understanding of exegesis, and it was also transmitted from him by his son ʿAbd—