Asad ibn al-Furat

Asad b. al-Furat, the Maliki jurist; he came from the west to Egypt and received the madhhab from Ibn al-Qasim, writing him questions of which the hardest became the book al-Asadiyya. ¹

Then Ziyadat Allah b. al-Aghlab sent him with an army to the island of Sicily; they camped against the city of Syracuse and remained besieging it until Ibn al-Furat died in Rajab 213, and was buried at Palermo. ¹