'Abd al- Malik b. Mas'ūd b. Mūsā b. Baškuwāl, Abū'l-Qāsim; September 1101 in Córdoba – 5 January 1183 in Sarrión), was an influential Andalusian traditionist and biographer working in Córdoba and Seville.
His ancestry was Arab and was a descendant of al-Ansar[1]- he was known as Ibn Bashkuwāl ("son of Pasqual") in the Valencia region.
In his hometown he worked as a consulting lawyer (faqīh mušāwar)[2] and for a short time as deputy Qādī in Seville under Ibn al-'Arabī.
His biographer Ibn Abbār (d. Jan 1260)[3] mentions 41 scholars in Córdoba and Seville, with whom he studied.
[5] He died in January 1183 and was buried in the cemetery known then as Ibn 'Abbās Scholars’ Cemetery in Córdoba[6] Ibn Bashkuwāl's biographers attribute him authorship of twenty-six known books, treatises and monographs of biographical content,[7] and list his teachers and the texts he studied.