Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (16/391)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Yaḥyā ibn Mufarrij al-Umayyī, their client, from Córdoba, and he was also known by the kunya Abū Bakr.

He heard ḥadith from Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh, Khaythama ibn Sulaymān, Abū al-Maymūn ibn Rāshid, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣammūt, and several others.

He pursued study in the Hijaz, Syria, and Yemen, and he was Ibn ʿAwn Allāh’s companion on that journey.

Those who narrated from him include his own teacher Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus, Abū al-Walīd ibn al-Farḍī, Ibrāhīm ibn Shākir, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rabīʿ al-Tamīmī, Abū ʿUmar al-Ṭalamankī, and many others.

The number of his teachers reached two hundred and thirty.

Ibn al-Farḍī said: “He became connected to the ruler of al-Andalus, held a distinguished position with him, composed several books for him, and was therefore appointed as judge.

He was a ḥāfiẓ, thoroughly acquainted with the names of narrators and their circumstances. A great many people transmitted from him.” (1)

Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAfīf said: “Ibn Mufarrij was among the wealthiest of people.”

= fol. 35a; Mirat al-Jinan, 2/409; al-Dibaj al-Mudhhab, 2/314; al-Nujum al-Zahira, 4/158-159; Tabaqat al-Huffaz, 399; Nafh al-Tib, 2/218-219; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3/97; Hadiyat al-Arifin, 2/51. (1) Tarikh ulama al-Andalus, 2/92, which reads in full: “He was a hafiz of hadith, thoroughly learned in it, keenly knowledgeable about the narrators, accurate in transmission, and produced excellent manuscripts despite the large corpus he collected. Many people heard hadith from him, and I regularly attended his sessions and listened to him from the year 369 until he was stricken with the illness from which he died. He granted me authorization (ijaza) for everything he narrated, more than once, and wrote that out in his own hand for me and for my brother.”

مُحَمَّدِ بنِ يَحْيَى بنِ مُفَرِّجٍ الأُمَوِيُّ مَوْلاَهُم القُرْطُبِيُّ، وَيُكْنَى أَيْضاً أَبَا بَكْرٍ. سَمِعَ: أَبَا سَعِيْدٍ بنَ الأَعرَابِيِّ، وَقَاسِمَ بنَ أَصْبَغَ، وَخَيْثَمَةَ بنَ سُلَيْمَانَ، وَأَبَا المَيْمُوْنِ بنَ رَاشِدٍ، وَمُحَمَّدَ بنَ الصَّمُوتِ، وَعِدَّةً. وَسَمِعَ بِالحِجَازِ، وَالشَّامِ، وَاليَمَنِ، وَكَانَ رفيقَ ابْن عَوْنِ اللهِ فِي الرِّحلَةِ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: شَيْخُهُ أَبُو سَعِيْدٍ بنُ يُوْنُسَ، وَأَبُو الوَلِيْدِ بنُ الفَرَضِي، وَإِبْرَاهِيْمُ بنُ شَاكِرٍ، وَعَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ رَبيْعٍ التَّمِيْمِيُّ، وَأَبُو عُمَرَ الطَّلَمَنْكِيُّ، وَخَلْقٌ. وعِدَّةُ شيوخِهِ مئتَانِ وثلاَثُونَ نَفْساً. قَالَ ابْنُ الفَرَضِي: اتَّصَلَ بِصَاحِبِ الأَنْدَلُسِ، وَكَانَ ذَا مكَانَةٍ عِنْدَهُ، صَنَّفَ لَهُ عِدَّةَ كتبٍ، فولاَّهُ القَضَاءَ. قَالَ: وَكَانَ حَافِظاً، بَصِيْراً بأَسمَاءِ الرِّجَالِ وَأَحوَالِهُمْ. أَكْثَرَ النَّاسُ عَنْهُ (١) . وَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ بنُ عَفِيْفٍ: كَانَ ابْنُ مُفَرِّجٍ مِنْ أَغْنَى النَّاسِ

= ٣٥ / أ، مرآة الجنان: ٢ / ٤٠٩، الديباج المذهب: ٢ / ٣١٤، النجوم الزاهرة: ٤ / ١٥٨ - ١٥٩، طبقات الحفاظ: ٣٩٩، نفح الطيب: ٢ / ٢١٨ - ٢١٩، شذرات الذهب: ٣ / ٩٧، هدية العارفين: ٢ / ٥١. (١) " تاريخ علماء الأندلس ": ٢ / ٩٢، ونصه بتمامه: وكان حافظا للحديث، عالما به، بصيرا بالرجال، صحيح النقل، جيد الكتاب على كثرة ما جمع، سمع الناس منه كثيرا، وآليت الاختلاف إليه والسماع منه من سنة تسع وستين إلى أن اعتل علته التي توفي بها، وأجاز لي جميع ما رواه غير مرة، وكتب لي ذلك بخطه ولاخي.