and remained constant in a small cell inside the Mosque of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ until he died, as we have mentioned (1).

He compiled his Taʿlīqa on grammar in roughly fifteen volumes, and his students—such as Ibn Barri (2) and others—quoted from it and benefited from it. They called it “the Cell Taʿlīqa.”

ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn Ahmad ibn al-Mujammaʿ ibn Muhammad ibn Baḥr ibn Maʿbad ibn Hazār-Mard (3), Abū Muhammad al-Ṣarīfīnī, known as Ibn al-Muʿallim,
was one of the renowned shaykhs possessing fully documented chains of transmission. Owing to his long life he alone preserved reports from several earlier teachers, and he was the last person to relate the Jaʿdiyyāt from Ibn Ḥabābah, from Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, from ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd—this being part of our own auditory transmission. Because of this, people journeyed to him, and many leading ḥuffāẓ heard from him, among them the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb. He was trustworthy and of praiseworthy conduct. He died in Ṣarīfīn (4) in Jumada I of the present year at the age of eighty-five. May Allah show him mercy.

Ḥayyān ibn Khalaf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥayyān ibn Wahb ibn Ḥayyān (5), Abū Marwān al-Qurṭubī, a client of the Umayyads and the author of “The History of the Maghrib” (6) in sixty volumes, was praised by the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī for his eloquence, truthfulness, and rhetorical skill. I heard him say: “To offer congratulations after three days betrays scant regard for affection, while to offer condolences after three days merely rekindles the calamity.”

Ibn Khallikān said: He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this same year. Someone saw him in a dream and asked about his condition, and he replied, “Allah has forgiven me. As for the History, I regret composing it, yet by His grace Allah excused and pardoned me.”