Abd al-Malik ibn Habib

Abd al-Malik ibn Habib was one of the scholars of al-Andalus in his time, and al-Maqqari mentions him in «Nafh al-tib». ²

Al-Maqqari reports from Ibn Wadah, from Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir, that he came to the East carrying a saddlebag full of books and said: "This is your knowledge", meaning books he had heard from him by licence. ² It is also reported that he answered those who looked down on him for his small body with verses in which he says that an observer should look not at a man's body but at what his chest holds. ²

Al-Maqqari answers the claim that he did not know hadith, saying that the leading hadith scholars transmitted from him. ²

• The data do not include his year of death. An additional source is needed.