Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

al-Adabiyya ⦗1⦘, and he also left a dīwān of poetry ⦗2⦘.
He was born in 357 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān, Bishr ibn Aḥmad, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, and several others. He was stone-deaf and could hear nothing. He learned lexicography from Abū Naṣr al-Jawharī, and the exegete Abū al-Ḥasan al-Wāḥidī and others, in turn, studied under him. He was a man of asceticism and righteousness. He died in Dhū al-Qaʿda, 431 AH.

333 – al-Qayshṭālī, Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad *
A ḥadith scholar, trustworthy authority, and the foremost musnid of his time: Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Maʿāfirī, al-Qurṭubī, known as al-Qayshṭālī—spelled with a shīn tinged with a jīm—who resided in Seville.

(1) Fawat al-Wafayat records that he wrote a refutation of al-Zajjaji regarding the latter’s amendments to Ibn al-Sikkit’s work Islah al-Mantiq (The Correction of Rhetoric). (2) Among his poetry: “To a delicate gazelle I said, ‘Would you share a cup in friendly wine-talk?’ He replied, ‘How many lovers have you already slain with mere wishes!’ See further: al-Yatima and al-Dumiya. (*) Al-Sila, 2/404; he is also mentioned in al-Ibar, 3/174; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3/248; Barnamaj al-Wadi Ashi, p. 187; and Nafh al-Tib, 5/200, within the isnad of the Muwatta’ transmitted by Yahya al-Laythi.
الأَدبيَة (١) ، وَلَهُ (دِيْوَان) شعر (٢) . وُلِدَ: سَنَةَ سَبْعٍ وَخَمْسِيْنَ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ. سَمِعَ مِنْ: أَبِي عَمْرٍو بنِ حَمْدَانَ، وَبِشْرِ بن أَحْمَدَ، وَأَبِي أَحْمَدَ الحَاكِم، وَعِدَّة. وَكَانَ أَصَمَّ لاَ يَسْمَعُ شَيْئاً. أَخَذَ اللغَاتِ عَنْ أَبِي نَصْرٍ الجَوْهَرِيّ. وَعَنْهُ: أَخَذَ المُفَسِّر أَبُو الحَسَنِ الوَاحِدِيّ، وَغَيْرهُ. وَكَانَ ذَا زُهْدٍ وَصَلاَحٍ. مَاتَ: فِي ذِي القَعْدَةِ، سَنَة إِحْدَى وَثَلاَثِيْنَ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَةٍ. ٣٣٣ - القَيْشَطَالِيُّ أَبُو عَمْرٍو عُثْمَانُ بنُ أَحْمَدَ * المُحَدِّثُ، الثِّقَةُ، مُسْنِدُ وَقْتِهِ، أَبُو عَمْرٍو عُثْمَانُ بنُ أَحْمَدَ بنِ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ يُوْسُفَ المَعَافِرِيُّ، القُرْطُبِيُّ، القَيْشَطَالِيُّ - بِشِيْنٍ مَشُوبَةٍ بِجِيمٍ - نَزِيْلُ إِشْبِيْليَةَ.
(١) ذكر في " فوات الوفيات " أن له ردا على الزجاجي فيما استدركه على ابن السكيت في " إصلاح المنطق ". (٢) ومن شعره: وشادن قلت له * هل لك في المنادمة فقال رب عاشق * سفكت بالمنى دمه وانظر " اليتيمة " و" الدمية ". (*) الصلة ٢ / ٤٠٤ وورد ذكره في العبر ٣ / ١٧٤، شذرات الذهب ٣ / ٢٤٨، برنامج الوادي آشي ص ١٨٧، ونفح الطيب ٥ / ٢٠٠ في سند " الموطأ " رواية يحيى الليثي.

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