he pinpoints the date of Ibn al-Mundhir’s death with exact precision—down to the very day and month—showing that he possessed additional information that inclines us to accept his statement. Moreover, his report coincides with Ibn al-Qiṭṭān’s determination of the year, which al-Dhahabī, Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba, and al-Suyūṭī all adopted.

– Sources for this biography:

1. Al-Subkī, Tabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah al-Kubrā, 3:102–108.
2. Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba, Tabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah, 2:98.
3. Abū Bakr ibn Hidayat Allāh al-Ḥusaynī, Tabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah, p. 59.
4. Al-Dhahabī, Siyar, 14:490–492, and Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ, 3:782–783.
5. Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, 4:207.
6. Al-Shīrāzī, Ṭabaqāt al-Fuqahāʾ, 1:218.
7. Al-Ziriklī, Al-Aʿlām, 6:184.
8. Al-Suyūṭī, Ṭabaqāt al-Mufassirīn, pp. 77–78.
9. ʿArīb ibn Saʿd al-Qurṭubī, Ṣilat Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī, p. 134.
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12. Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Jibrīn, introduction to the critical edition of Kitāb al-Iqnaʿ.