Muhammad ibn Fattuh al-Humaydi

محمد بن فتوح الحميدي

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr Fattuh ibn Abd Allah al-Azdi al-Humaydi al-Andalusi al-Mayurqi, known as Ibn Fattuh. ¹ He studied with Abu Umar ibn Abd al-Barr, the judge Abu Abd Allah al-Qada'i, the hafiz Abu Bakr al-Khatib, and others. ¹ Ibrahim al-Salmasi said he was scrupulous and devout, an imam in hadith and its defects and transmitters, versed in the science of verification and the principles of the people of hadith, eloquent in speech and well read in literature, Arabic and correspondence. ¹ His works include «al-Dhahab al-masbuk fi wa'z al-muluk» and «Jumal tarikh al-Islam». ¹ The source cited is Siyar a'lam al-nubala'. ¹ The heading's date, which begins with 'before 488', is only partly legible in the scan.