Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

I had been stout of heart, yet passion has worn my strength away; this passion has never ceased to sap all toughness.
So do not wonder that your frailty has outmatched my power—for many a gazelle has, in love, prevailed over lions.
You have conquered my heart, becoming more entitled to it than I; you rule me more completely than I rule myself, and thus I have become your servant.
Your love flows through me like life itself; to lose you would be like losing my very life—may I never taste your absence.

I have already cited, above, some of the hadiths taken from this Muʿjam.

Abu al-Fadl al-Saʿdi, al-Sakan the son of Ibn Jumayʿ, and Abu Ishaq al-Habbal said: Ibn Jumayʿ died in Rajab of the year 402 AH. His son mentioned the year but not the month, and al-Kattani was mistaken when he said that the death occurred in 403 AH. The first report is the sound one. Ibn Jumayʿ lived for 96 years.

His father:

97 – Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ghassani
His father, Abu Bakr, was a devout worshipper who fasted constantly.
He transmitted from Muhammad ibn ʿAbdan, the associate of Abu Musʿab al-Zuhri.
Those who narrated from him were: his own son, in the Muʿjam, and his grandson al-Hasan, nicknamed al-Sakan.
He died sometime in the 350s AH.

98 – al-Sakan ibn Jumayʿ, Abu Muhammad
al-Sakan’s teknonym was indeed Abu Muhammad.

(*) al-Ansab, vol. 8, p. 119. (* *) al-Ansab, vol. 8, pp. 117 and 119.
وَقَدْ كُنْتُ جَلْداً ثُمَّ أَوْهَننِي الهوَى ... وَهَذَا الهوَى مَا زَالَ يَسْتَوهِنُ الجَلْدَا فَلاَ تَعْجَبِي مِنْ غَلْبِ ضَعْفِكِ قُوَّتِي ... فَكَمْ مِنْ ظِبَاءٍ فِي الهوَى غَلَبَتْ أُسْدَا غَلَبْتُم عَلَى قَلْبِي فَصِرْتُم أَحقَّ بِي ... وَأَملكَ بِي مِنِّي فَصِرْتُ لَكُم عَبْدَا جَرَى حبُّكُم مَجْرَى حَيَاتِي فَفَقْدُكُم ... كَفَقْدِ حَيَاتِي لاَ رَأَيْتُ لَكُم فَقْدَا وَقَدْ سقتُ مِنْ هَذَا (المُعْجَم) أَحَادِيْث فِيمَا مَضَى. قَالَ أَبُو الفَضْلِ السَّعْدِيُّ، وَالسَّكَنُ وَلدُ ابْنِ جُمَيْع، وَأَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الحَبَّال: تُوُفِّيَ ابْنُ جُمَيْع فِي رَجَبٍ سَنَة اثْنَتَيْنِ وَأَرْبَع مائَة، لَكِنّ ابْنه مَا ذكر الشَّهر، وَوَهِمَ الكَتَّانِيّ، فَقَالَ: مَاتَ فِي سَنَةِ ثَلاَثٍ وَأَرْبَع مائَة. وَالصَّحِيْحُ الأَوّلُ، وَعَاشَ ستاً وَتِسْعِيْنَ سَنَةً. أَبُوْهُ: ٩٧ - أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بنُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ أَحْمَدَ الغَسَّانِيُّ * وَكَانَ وَالِدُهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَابداً صَوَّاماً. حَدَّثَ عَنْ: مُحَمَّدِ بنِ عَبْدَان صَاحِبِ أَبِي مُصْعَب الزُّهْرِيّ. رَوَى عَنْهُ: وَلَدُهُ فِي (مُعْجَمِه) ، وَحفيدُه الحَسَنُ المُلَقَّب بِالسَّكَن. تُوُفِّيَ فِي سَنَةِ بِضْع وَخَمْسِيْنَ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ. ٩٨ - السَّكَنُ ابْنُ جُمَيْعٍ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ * وَكَانَ السَّكَنُ يُكْنَى أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ.
(*) الأنساب ٨ / ١١٩. (* *) الأنساب ٨ / ١١٧ و١١٩.

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