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Al-Qadi Ayyad: Al-Tanbihat almustanbitat ealaa alkutub

(Allegations based on written and mixed books) (d1150)

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Taken from:  كتاب التنبيهات المستنبطة على الكتب المدونة والمختلطة   by  القاضي عياض  al-maktaba.org

Full name: Ayad ibn Musa Ibn Ayad Ibn Omran Al-Homsabi Al-Sabti, Abu Al-Fadl

Vol2 p377

And he said: and the Zanji Muslim bin Khalid (1) a man of Quraysh (2), like in “mother” (3). But the Zangi named Mawlana Quraish white like milk, a scholar of Mecca, but weak in hadith because of his poor memorization and the large number of his mistakes. He was called Balzanji because he lived in a hot neighborhood inhabited by Zanji - a nation of Sudan.