Ashab Mālik: Trusted transmitters from Mālik’s circle. One of them was a student of Ibn Wahb; he was born in 145 AH and died in Egypt in 204 AH. References: Al-Intiqāʾ by Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, pp. 51–52; Wafayāt al-Aʿyān by Ibn Khallikān, vol. 1, pp. 238–239; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb by Ibn Ḥajar, vol. 1, pp. 359–362. (1) Abu Sa‘īd ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Sa‘īd ibn Ḥabīb al-Tunūkhī, known as Sahnūn, the Maliki jurist. Fearless in upholding legal truth, he became the leading scholarly authority in the Maghreb. He compiled al-Mudawwana, the principal compendium of Imām Mālik’s school. Born in Kairouan in 160 AH; died there in 240 AH. References: Wafayāt al-Aʿyān by Ibn Khallikān, vol. 3, pp. 180–182; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ by al-Dhahabī, vol. 12, pp. 63–69; Shadharāt al-Dhahab by Ibn al-ʿImād, vol. 2, p. 94. (2) Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sahnūn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Sa‘īd al-Tunūkhī, Maliki jurist of the Maghreb who studied under his father Sahnūn. A discerning hadith scholar and an expert in Imām Mālik’s school, he authored works such as al-Siyar and al-Tārīkh. Born in Kairouan in 202 AH; died in 265 AH. References: Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ by al-Dhahabī, vol. 13, pp. 60–63; al-Wāfī bi-l-Wafayāt by al-Ṣafadī, vol. 3, p. 86; Lisān al-Mīzān by Ibn Ḥajar, vol. 5, p. 259; Shadharāt al-Dhahab by Ibn al-ʿImād, vol. 2, p. 150. (3) Abu Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ḥabīb ibn Sulaymān al-Sulamī al-Qurṭubī, Maliki jurist and leading scholar of al-Andalus. He produced numerous works, including Tafsīr Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik and al-Wāḍiḥa on Sunan and fiqh. Born in 174 AH; died in 238 AH. References: Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ by al-Dhahabī, vol. 2, pp. 537–538; Lisān al-Mīzān by Ibn Ḥajar, vol. 4, pp. 59–60; Shadharāt al-Dhahab by Ibn al-ʿImād, vol. 2, p. 90. (4) Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Wuḍāḥ ibn Buzayḥ al-Qurṭubī, hadith scholar of al-Andalus alongside Baqī ibn Makhlad. He studied under the Ashab Mālik and al-Layth, and traveled twice to the East in pursuit of knowledge. His work Mā Jāʾa min al-Ḥadīth fī al-Naẓar ilā Allāh taʿālā (‘What Hadith Say About Contemplating God’) remains in manuscript. Born in Córdoba in 199 AH; died in 286 AH. References: Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl by al-Dhahabī, vol. 4, p. 59; Lisān al-Mīzān by Ibn Ḥajar, vol. 5, pp. 416–417; Shadharāt al-Dhahab by Ibn al-ʿImād, vol. 2, p. 194; al-Aʿlām by al-Zarkalī.