Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (17/6)

He also composed poetry (1) and prose, yet he was blemished by rafḍ (Shiʿite rejectionism). One evening, while he was sitting with his companions, a mamlūk rushed at him and killed him in the month of Ṣafar, 391 AH, because he had heard him say, “Had it not been for your two bed-fellows, I would have visited you.” (2)

Al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (3) and a number of others mourned him in verse. Further accounts of his life are found in Ibn Khallikān’s History. After his death, his son Muʿtamid al-Dawlah Qirwāsh (4) assumed power, and his rule lasted for roughly fifty years.

2 – Al-Ṭūsī, Abū al-Faḍl Naṣr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad

The Imām and ḥadith master (ḥāfiẓ), Abū al-Faḍl Naṣr, son of Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Ṭūsī, the perfumer.

He was born around the year 310 AH. He heard [hadith] from Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Sharqī, Abū Ḥāmid ibn Bilāl, and Abū ʿAbd Allah.

(1) See the lines of his poetry quoted by Ibn Khallikan in Wafayat al-ayan, 5/262. (2) The full report appears in: al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4/87/2; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-ayan, 5/263; al-Nujum al-zahira, 4/203; and Shadharat al-dhahab, 3/138, which reads “sahibak” (your two companions) instead of “dajiak” (your two bed-fellows). (3) The poem opens: “A Amir, you are neither of today nor of tomorrow; you have taken on the disgrace of time after al-Muqallad.” It is reproduced in his Diwan, 1/369–373. (4) His biography will be given later in this volume, no. 427. (*) Tarikh al-Islam, 4/50/1; Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 3/1016; al-Nujum al-zahira, 4/166; Tabaqat al-huffaz, 402; Shadharat al-dhahab, 3/106.

وَلَهُ شِعرٌ (١) وَأَدبٌ، وَفِيْهِ رَفضٌ. وَثَبَ عَلَيْهِ مَمْلُوْكٌ فِي مَجْلِسِ أُنسِهِ، فَقَتَلَهُ فِي صَفَرٍ، سَنَةَ إِحْدَى وَتِسْعِيْنَ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ، لِكَوْنِهِ سَمِعَهُ يَقُوْلُ: لَوْلاَ ضَجِيعَاكَ لَزُرْتُكَ (٢) . رَثَاهُ الشَّرِيْفُ الرَّضِيُّ (٣) ، وَجَمَاعَةٌ. وَلَهُ أَخْبَارٌ فِي (تَاريخِ ابْنِ خَلِّكَانَ) . وَتَمَلَّكَ بَعْدَهُ ابْنُهُ مُعتَمِدُ الدَّوْلَةِ قِرْوَاشٌ (٤) ، فَدَامتْ دَوْلَتُهُ نَحْواً مِنْ خَمْسِيْنَ سَنَةً. ٢ - الطُّوْسِيُّ أَبُو الفَضْلِ نَصْرُ بنُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ أَحْمَدَ * الإِمَامُ، الحَافِظُ، أَبُو الفَضْلِ نَصْرُ بنُ أَبِي نَصْرٍ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ أَحْمَدَ بنِ يَعْقُوْبَ الطُّوْسِيُّ، العَطَّارُ. وُلِدَ: فِي حُدُوْدِ سَنَة عَشْرٍ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ. وَسَمِعَ: أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ بن الشَّرْقِيّ، وَأَبَا حَامِدٍ بنَ بِلاَلٍ، وَأَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ

(١) انظر ما أورده ابن خلكان من شعره في " الوفيات " ٥ / ٢٦٢. (٢) الخبر بتمامه في " تاريخ الإسلام " ٤ / ٨٧ / ٢، و" وفيات الأعيان " ٥ / ٢٦٣، و" النجوم الزاهرة " ٤ / ٢٠٣، و" شذرات الذهب " ٣ / ١٣٨ وفيها " صاحباك " بدل " ضجيعاك ". (٣) بقصيدة مطلعها: أعامر لا لليوم أنت ولا الغد * تقلدت ذل الدهر بعد المقلد وهي في " ديوانه " ١ / ٣٦٩ - ٣٧٣. (٤) سترد ترجمته في هذا الجزء برقم (٤٢٧) . (*) تاريخ الإسلام ٤ / ٥٠ / ١، تذكرة الحفاظ ٣ / ١٠١٦، النجوم الزاهرة ٤ / ١٦٦، طبقات الحفاظ ٤٠٢، شذرات الذهب ٣ / ١٠٦.