Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Those who narrated from him included: Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Gharīq, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥanduqūqī (1), ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṭāhir the ascetic, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Bāqarḥī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUthmān, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Sulaymān al-ʿAṭṭār, Naṣr ibn al-Baṭir and his brother ʿAlī ibn al-Baṭir, along with many others. He dictated traditions for a considerable period.

Al-Khaṭīb said (2): “He was reliable, truthful, widely-traveled in listening to ḥadith and diligent in writing them down, sound in creed, and constant in his recitation of the Quran. He continued to dictate in the congregational mosque of the city from sometime after 380 AH until shortly before his death. He was the first shaykh from whom I wrote, and that was in 403 AH, after he had lost his eyesight.”

Abū al-Qāsim al-Azharī said: “One of the viziers sent Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Razquwayh a sum of money, but he returned it out of scrupulous piety.” (3)

It is also reported that Ibn Razquwayh pursued his study of jurisprudence according to the school of al-Shāfiʿī (4).

Al-Khaṭīb further stated: “I heard him say, ‘By Allah, I love life only for remembrance of Allah and for transmitting ḥadith.’ I also heard al-Barqānī attest to Ibn Razquwayh’s reliability (5). He passed away in 412 AH.”

(1) The word “ibn” is missing in the base manuscript; it has been supplied from his entry in al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat, 4/136, which states: “Muhammad ibn Ali, Abu Abd Allah, son of al-Muhtadi al-Hashimi, known as Ibn al-Handaquqa … He died in Dhu al-Hijja 469 AH.” (2) Tarikh Baghdad, 1/351; cf. al-Muntazam, 8/5. (3) Tarikh Baghdad, 1/352; al-Muntazam, 8/5. (4) Tarikh Baghdad, 1/352 notes that Ibn Razquwayh said he studied fiqh and wrote marginalia according to the Shafi‘i school. (5) Tarikh Baghdad, 1/352; al-Muntazam, 8/5.
حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: أَبُو بَكْرٍ الخَطِيْبُ، وَأَبُو الحُسَينِ بنُ الغَريقِ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بنُ عَلِيّ ابنُ (١) الحَنْدقُوقِيِّ، وَعَبْدُ العَزِيْزِ بنُ طَاهِرٍ الزَّاهِد، وَمُحَمَّدُ بنُ إِسْحَاقَ البَاقَرْحِي، وَعَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ عَبْدِ الصَّمَدِ بنِ المَأْمُوْنِ، وَأَبُو الغَنَائِمِ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ، وَأَحْمَدُ بنُ الحُسَيْنِ بنِ سُلَيْمَانَ العَطَّارُ، وَنَصْرُ بنُ البَطِرِ، وَأَخُوْهُ؛ عَلِيُّ بنُ البَطِرِ، وَآخَرُوْنَ، وَأَمْلَى مُدَّة. قَالَ الخَطِيْبُ (٢) :كَانَ ثِقَةً، صَدُوْقاً، كَثِيْرَ السَّمَاعِ وَالكِتَابَةِ، حَسَنَ الاعْتِقَادِ، مُدِيْماً لِلْتِّلاَوَة، بَقِيَ يُمْلِي فِي جَامع المَدِيْنَة مِنْ بَعْد ثَمَانِيْنَ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ إِلَى قُرْبِ مَوْته، وَهُوَ أَوَّلُ شَيْخٍ كَتَبْتُ عَنْهُ، وَذَلِكَ فِي سَنَةِ ثَلاَثٍ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَةٍ بَعْد مَا كُفَّ بَصَرُهُ. قَالَ أَبُو القَاسِمِ الأَزْهَرِيُّ: أَرْسَلَ بَعْضُ الوزَرَاء إِلَى أَبِي الحَسَنِ بنِ رَزْقُوَيْه بِمَالٍ، فَرَدَّهُ توَرُّعاً (٣) . وَكَانَ ابْنُ رَزْقُوَيْه يُذكر أَنَّهُ درس الفِقْهَ للشَافعِي (٤) . قَالَ الخَطِيْبُ: سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُوْلُ: وَاللهِ مَا أُحِبُّ الحَيَاةَ إِلاَّ لِلذِّكر وَللتحديثِ، وَسَمِعْتُ البَرْقَانِيَّ يُوَثِّق ابْنَ رَزْقُوَيْه (٥) ، مَاتَ سَنَةَ اثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ وَأَرْبَع مائَة.
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