Ibn al-Labbad

ابن اللباد

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Washshah, Abu Bakr of Qayrawan, known as Ibn al-Labbad, a Maliki jurist, Qur'an commentator and philologist. He studied with Yahya ibn Umar, his brother Muhammad, Ibn Talib, Sa'id al-Haddad and others; Ibn al-Harith and Ibn Abi Zayd studied with him, and a group transmitted from him, among them Ziyad ibn Abd al-Rahman and Ibn al-Mantab. His works include al-Athar wa-al-fawa'id in ten parts, a Book of Purity, the Virtues of Mecca, and the Virtues of Malik ibn Anas. The book gives his death as 333 AH and his birth as 250 AH in its heading. {C(5491)}