Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

He also held a number of dictation sessions and was a trustworthy, truthful, long-lived scholar.
He died in 487 AH, having reached his nineties.
A selection of his narrations appears in my Mashyakhah of Zāhir.
As for his brother, the Qur’anic exegete, I have not obtained any of his transmissions with a high isnād (chain of transmission).

162 – al-Baḥīrī, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad
The imām, jurist, and righteous scholar, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Baḥīrī of Nishapur.
He transmitted the Musnad of Abū ʿAwanah from Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan, and Imām Abū al-Muẓaffar Manṣūr al-Samʿānī read it to him.
Among those who narrated from him are Wajīh al-Shaḥḥāmī, Abū al-Asʿad Hibat al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qushayrī, and others.
He died in Nishapur in 469 AH.

Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh al-Dimashqī informed us; al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣaffār informed us; Hibat al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid informed us; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baḥīrī informed us; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq the ḥāfiẓ informed us in 316 AH; Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to us; Ibn Wahb informed us; Yūnus informed me from Ibn Shihāb, who said:

“It reached us from some of the scholars that they used to say:
‘Holding fast to the sunnah is salvation, and knowledge is being taken away swiftly.
The flourishing of knowledge secures the stability of both religion and worldly life, and that stability departs when knowledge departs.’”

(*) al-Istidrak, vol. 1, fol. 50a.
وَأَملَى مَجَالِس، وَكَانَ ثِقَةً صَادِقاً مُعَمَّراً. مَاتَ: سَنَةَ سَبْعٍ وَثَمَانِيْنَ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَة، وَهُوَ مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ التِّسْعِيْنَ. يَقع لِي مِنْ حَدِيْثِهِ فِي مشيخَة زَاهِر. وَأَمَّا أَخُوْهُ الْمُفَسّر، فَمَا وَقَعَ لِي حَدِيْثُهُ بِعُلُوّ. ١٦٢ - البَحِيْرِيُّ عَبْدُ الحَمِيْدِ بنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بنِ مُحَمَّدٍ * الإِمَامُ، الفَقِيْهُ، الصَّالِحُ، أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدُ الحَمِيْدِ بنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بنِ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ أَحْمَدَ البَحِيْرِيُّ، النَّيْسَابُوْرِيُّ. رَاوِي (مُسْنَد أَبِي عَوَانَة) ، عَنْ أَبِي نُعَيْمٍ عَبْدِ الْملك بن الحَسَنِ، قرَأَه عَلَيْهِ الإِمَامُ أَبُو المُظَفَّرِ مَنْصُوْرٌ السَّمْعَانِيّ. وَحَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: وَجيه الشَّحَّامِيّ، وَأَبُو الأَسْعَد هبَةُ الرَّحْمَن بنُ القُشَيْرِيّ، وَجَمَاعَة. مَاتَ: فِي سَنَةِ تِسْعٍ وَسِتِّيْنَ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَة بِنَيْسَابُوْرَ. أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ هِبَةِ اللهِ الدِّمَشْقِيّ، أَنْبَأَنَا القَاسِمُ بنُ عَبْد اللهِ بن الصَّفَّار، أَخْبَرَنَا هبَةُ الرَّحْمَن بن عبد الوَاحِد، أَخْبَرَنَا عبدُ الحمِيد بن عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ البَحيرِي، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ المَلِكِ بنُ الحَسَنِ، أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوْبُ بنُ إِسْحَاقَ الحَافِظ سَنَة سِتَّ عَشْرَةَ وَثَلاَثِ مائَة، حَدَّثَنَا يُوْنُسُ بنُ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى، أَخْبَرْنَا ابْنُ وَهْب، أَخْبَرَنِي يُوْنُسُ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ قَالَ: بَلَغَنَا عَنْ رِجَالٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ العِلْمِ أَنَّهم كَانُوا يَقُوْلُوْنَ: الاعتصَامُ بِالسُّنَّة نَجَاةٌ، وَالعِلْمُ يُقْبَضُ قبضاً سرِيعاً، فَنَعْشُ العِلْمِ ثَبَاتُ الدِّين وَالدُّنْيَا، وَذهَابُ ذَلِكَ فِي ذَهَاب العِلْم.
(*) الاستدراك: ١ / ورق ٥٠ أ.

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