al-Tartushi

أبو بكر الطرطوشي

c. 1059 CE · 451 AH – c. 1126 CE · 520 AH

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Walid ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf al-Fihri al-Andalusi al-Tartushi, the Maliki jurist and ascetic known as Ibn Abi Randaqa. He accompanied Abu al-Walid al-Baji at Saragossa and studied disagreement under him, and read literature with Abu Muhammad Ibn Hazm at Seville. In 476 he set out for the East, performed the hajj and entered Baghdad and Basra, studied law under Abu Bakr al-Shashi al-Mustazhiri and Abu Ahmad al-Jurjani, and settled in Syria, where he taught. He was an imam, a scholar who acted on his knowledge, an ascetic, pious and austere; he admonished al-Afdal Shahanshah, vizier of al-Musta'li, until he wept. His works include Siraj al-muluk, Birr al-walidayn, al-Fitan and Siraj al-huda ¹.