Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (17/477)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

and Abu al-Qasim ibn Abi al-ʿAlaʾ al-Masisi, the chief Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Thaqafi, Qadi Abu al-Hasan al-Khilaʿi, and others.

I myself obtained two fascicles of his hadith.

Abu Ishaq al-Habbal said: “Abu ʿAbd Allah ibn Nazif led the people in prayer in the Mosque of ʿAbd Allah for seventy years. He followed the Shafiʿi school and used to make the qunut. After him a man of the Maliki school led; the people came as usual, but when he omitted the qunut they left him and walked out, saying, ‘He does not know how to pray.’”

He died in Rabiʿ al-Akhir of the year 431 AH ⦗1⦘, having passed the age of ninety. May Allah have mercy on him.

315 – Al-Munqī, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Talha al-Baghdadi

The imam and preacher Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Talha ibn Ahmad ibn Harun al-Baghdadi, known as al-Munqī—meaning “the sifter.”

He heard hadith from Abu Jaʿfar ibn Burayh ⦗2⦘, ʿAbd al-Samad al-Tasti, and Abu Bakr al-Najjād.

Among those who narrated from him were Abu Bakr al-Khatib, Abu al-Khattab ibn al-Batr, and a group of others.

Al-Khatib ⦗3⦘ said: “He was trustworthy and discreet.” He died in Dhu al-Hijjah of the year 420 AH. May Allah have mercy on him.

(1) Al-Wafi records the figure as thirty-two. (*) Sources: Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 4, p. 212; al-Ibar, vol. 3, p. 136; Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 214. (2) In Tarikh Baghdad the name is mistakenly vocalised as “Buwaih”; the person meant is Abd Allah b. Ismail al-Hashimi b. Bariyah, who died in 350 AH; his biography appeared in volume 15 above. (3) Cited in his own Tārikh, vol. 4, p. 212.

وَأَبُو القَاسِمِ بنُ أَبِي العَلاَءِ المِصِّيْصِيّ، وَالرَّئِيْس أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الثفقيُّ، وَالقَاضِي أَبُو الحَسَنِ الخِلَعِيُّ، وَآخَرُوْنَ. ووَقَعَ لِي جُزْآنِ مِنْ حَدِيْثه. قَالَ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الحَبَّالُ: كَانَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ بنُ نَظِيْف يُصَلِّي بِالنَّاسِ فِي مَسْجِد عَبْد اللهِ سبعينَ سَنَةً، وَكَانَ شَافِعِيّاً يقنُتُ، فَأَمَّ بَعْدَهُ رَجُلٌ مَالِكِيٌّ، وَجَاءَ النَّاسُ عَلَى عَادتهم، فَلَمْ يَقْنُت، فتركُوهُ وَانصرَفُوا، وَقَالُوا: لاَ يُحسنُ يُصَلِّي. مَاتَ: فِي رَبِيْعٍ الآخِرِ، سَنَةَ إِحْدَى وَثَلاَثِيْنَ (١) وَأَرْبَعِ مائَةٍ وَقَدْ نيَّف عَلَى التِّسْعِيْنَ ﵀. ٣١٥ - المُنَقِّي أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بنُ طَلْحَةَ البَغْدَادِيُّ * الإِمَامُ، الوَاعِظُ، أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بنُ طَلْحَةَ بنِ أَحْمَدَ بنِ هَارُوْنَ البَغْدَادِيُّ، المُنَقِّي - يَعْنِي المُغَرْبِل -. سَمِعَ: أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ بن بُرَيه (٢) ، وَعَبْدَ الصَّمَدِ الطَّسْتِي، وَأَبَا بَكْرٍ النَّجَّاد. وَعَنْهُ: أَبُو بَكْرٍ الخَطِيْبُ، وَأَبُو الحَطَّاب بنُ البَطِر، وَجَمَاعَة. قَالَ الخَطِيْبُ (٣) :كَانَ ثِقَةً مَسْتُوْراً، مَاتَ فِي ذِي الحِجَّةِ سَنَة عِشْرِيْنَ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَةٍ ﵀.

(١) في " الوافي ": اثنتين وثلاثين. (*) تاريخ بغداد ٤ / ٢١٢، العبر ٣ / ١٣٦، شذرات الذهب ٣ / ٢١٤. (٢) تحرف في " تاريخ بغداد " إلى " بويه " بالواو، وهو عبد الله بن إسماعيل الهاشمي بن بريه المتوفى سنة ٣٥٠ هـ، مرت ترجمته في الجزء الخامس عشر. (٣) في " تاريخه " ٤ / ٢١٢.