In 451 AH he died. His brother Ibrāhīm then ascended the throne, strove in jihad, upheld justice, and captured a number of fortresses in India (1).
72 – Zuhayr ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, Abū Naṣr al-Sarkhasī * (2)
The erudite scholar, shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, Abū Naṣr al-Sarkhasī (3).
He was born sometime after 370 AH.
He heard hadith from Zāhir ibn Aḥmad al-Sarkhasī; in Baghdad from Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis; and, in Basra, the Sunan (4) from the judge Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī.
He studied jurisprudence under Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyīnī.
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “Among his companions I met Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh in Sarkhas.”
Some Shāfiʿīs remarked, “I have never seen a notebook finer than Zuhayr’s notes from Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyīnī; he remained with him for six years.”
He died in Shawwāl of the year fifty-four.
(1) Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh, vol. 10, p. 5.
(*) Al-Ansab, vol. 5, p. 56 (entry: al-Khadami); al-Muntazam, vol. 8, p. 232—here the name “Zuhayr” of the biographee is omitted; al-Lubab, vol. 1, p. 425; al-Ibar, vol. 3, p. 232; Mirat al-Jinan, vol. 3, p. 74; Tabaqat al-Subki, vol. 4, pp. 379-380; Tabaqat al-Isnawi, vol. 2, p. 42; al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya, vol. 12, p. 90; Kashf al-Zunun, vol. 1, pp. 171, 293; Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 3, pp. 292-293; Hadiyat al-Arifin, vol. 1, p. 375.
(2) Al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya gives his name as Zuhayr b. Ali b. al-Hasan.
(3) Al-Ansab records another nisba, al-Khadami (with kha and dal), derived from his grandfather Khaddam. This is misread in al-Muntazam and al-Bidaya as Hazam; in al-Muntazam and Hadiyat al-Arifin as al-Judhami (with jim and dhal); and in al-Bidaya as al-Hizami (with ha and zay).
(4) That is, Sunan Abi Dawud.