al-Shatibi

Al-Shatibi Abu Muhammad — also Abu'l-Qasim — al-Qasim ibn Firra ibn Khalaf ibn Ahmad al-Ru'ayni, the blind Qur'an-teacher; author of the ode he named "Hirz al-amani wa-wajh al-tahani" on the readings — 1,173 verses in which he excelled completely — which has become the reliance of the reciters of this age in their transmission, few working on the readings without putting it first and memorising it, filled with wondrous notations and subtle hidden indications. ²

He knew God's Book in recitation and exegesis and was outstanding in hadith; when the Sahihs of al-Bukhari and Muslim and the Muwatta were read to him, copies were corrected from his memory and he dictated notes on the passages needing them; singular in grammar and knowing its nooks, fair of intent, gentle in word and deed; he read the readings under Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abi'l-'As al-Farri al-Muqri and Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Hudhayl al-Andalusi. ²