And the truthfulness of patience for the students, and long forbearance. He died in the year five hundred and seventy-eight (578 AH).¹

(d) Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAttāb: He is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAttāb ibn Muḥsin al-Qurṭubī. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī described him, saying: "The shaykh, the all-knowing scholar, the truthful ḥadīth transmitter, the authority of al-Andalus." Khalaf ibn Bashkuwāl said: "He was the last of the great and eminent shaykhs in al-Andalus in terms of the elevation of his chain of transmission and the breadth of his narration." He was knowledgeable of the paths of transmission, well-versed in much of tafsīr, gharīb, and maʿānī, with a generous share of linguistics and Arabic. He studied fiqh under his father. He was born in the year four hundred and thirty-three (433 AH) and died in the year five hundred and twenty (520 AH).²

(e) Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr: He is Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Barr ibn ʿĀṣim al-Namarī (with the fatḥa on the nūn and the mīm, followed by a rāʾ; this nisba is to al-Namir ibn Qāsit, with fatḥa on the nūn and kasra on the mīm — the mīm is only opened in the nisba specifically — and it is a large, well-known tribe), the Andalusian, the Cordoban, the Mālikī. He was born in the year three hundred and sixty-eight (368 AH). Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī described him, saying: "The imam, the all-knowing scholar, the ḥāfiẓ of the Maghrib, the shaykh of Islam, author of surpassing works. He met the great scholars, his life was long, his chain of transmission became elevated, students gathered around him in great numbers, and he collected, compiled, declared reliable, and declared weak. His works traveled far and wide, and the scholars of his time submitted to his knowledge. He was a religious imam, trustworthy, precise."

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¹ Al-Dhahabī, Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ, 4/1339–1341.
² Al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, 19/514–515.