He passed away in the month of Ṣafar, in the year 462 AH (1), and al-Muʿtamid ibn ʿAbbād joined his funeral procession.
153 – al-Ṣarīfīnī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh
The imam, reliable authority, and preacher—he was the khatīb of Sarfīn (2). He is Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Mujīb ibn al-Mujammaʿ ibn Baḥr ibn Maʿbad (3) ibn Hazār-Marda (4) al-Ṣarīfīnī, the transmitter of the book al-Jaʿdiyyāt (5) from Abū al-Qāsim ibn Ḥabābah (6).
He heard hadith from: Ibn Ḥabābah; Ibn Akhī Mīmī al-Daqqāq; ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kattānī (7); Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis; Amat al-Salām daughter of Aḥmad ibn Kāmil; the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Dawstat al-ʿAllāf; and others.
Genealogists disagreed over his line of descent, specifically over whether Mujīb should be placed before al-Mujammaʿ (8).
(1) In al-Wafi bi’l-Wafayat the year of his death is mis-copied, appearing only as “… and three hundred.”
(*) Sources: Tarikh Baghdad 10/146-147; al-Ansab al-Muttafiqa, p. 87; al-Ansab 8/59; al-Muntazam 8/309-310; Muʿjam al-Buldan 3/403-404; al-Kamil 10/106; al-Lubab 2/240; al-Ibar 3/271; al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya 12/116-117; Shadharat al-Dhahab 3/334.
(2) Muʿjam al-Buldan states that this is a town in the Sawad of Iraq located in two places: the first, a large, flourishing, tree-covered village near Ukbara and Awana on the bank of the Dijayl River, from which the subject of our entry takes his nisba; the second, a village belonging to Wasit.
(3) Tarikh Baghdad gives his lineage as: son of Ahmad b. al-Mujammaʿ b. Mujib b. Maʿbad b. Bahr, whereas al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya reads: son of Ahmad b. al-Mujammaʿ b. Muhammad b. Yahya b. Maʿbad. Ibn Kathir adds that he was also known as Ibn al-Muʿallim.
(4) Shadharat al-Dhahab corrupts the name to “Haramard.”
(5) For an earlier explanation, see p. 240, note (3).
(6) In al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya the name is erroneously written “Hibana.”
(7) Muʿjam al-Buldan misreads it as “al-Kinani.”
(8) In the recensions of Tarikh Baghdad by al-Khatib and Ibn al-Jawzi the order is al-Mujammaʿ before Mujib, while Ibn Kathir in al-Bidaya and both Ibn al-Qaysarani and al-Samʿani in their respective Ansaab works omit the name Mujib entirely.