and he is the very man whom al-Hariri held up as a proverbial example in the Maqamat (1).
After him, his son Bahāʾ al-Dawlah Mansur (2) assumed power. He proceeded to the camp of the sultan Malikshah, who welcomed him; the caliph invested him with a robe of honor and appointed him over al-Ḥillah. His rule lasted five years, after which he died (3). Mansur was a gallant warrior, an accomplished poet, a capable grammarian, and a man of commendable conduct. Authority then passed to his son, Sayf al-Dawlah Ṣadaqah ibn Mansur.
287 – al-Khabri, Abū Ḥakīm ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibrahim *
The foremost imam among the specialists in farāʾid (inheritance law), the erudite Abū Ḥakīm (4) ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibrahim al-Khabri, a Shafiʿi. He studied jurisprudence under Abū Isḥāq and received hadith from al-Qādisi and al-Jawhari.
(1) Ibn Khallikan records in Wafayat al-aʿyan 2/263 that the person whom Hariri took as an exemplar in the Maqamat is Dabis b. Sadaqa b. Mansur b. Dabis b. Ali b. Mazid al-Asadi (d. 529), a later descendant of the present biographee. The author of the chronicle was therefore mistaken. Hariri mentions this Dabis in the thirty-ninth maqama, the “Omani Maqama,” describing how the crowd surrounded Abu Zayd, praising him and kissing his hands “until I imagined him to be Uways al-Qarani, or Dabis the Asadi.” See Maqamat al-Hariri, p. 342 (Saadir edition).
(2) See al-Kamil, 10/121.
(3) Al-Kamil, 10/150.
(*) Principal sources: al-Ikmal 3/51; al-Ansab 5/39; al-Munazzam 9/99–100; Muʿjam al-udabaʾ 12/46–47; Muʿjam al-buldan 2/344; al-Istidrak 1, fol. 154b–155a; Inbāh al-ruwāt 2/98; al-Mushtabih 1/184; Talkhis Ibn Maktum, p. 88; Tabaqat al-Subki 5/62–63; Tabaqat al-Isnawi 1/471–472; al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya 12/153; Tabsir al-muntabih 1/362; al-Nujum al-zahira 5/159; Bughyat al-wuʿāt 2/29; Tabaqat Ibn Hidayat Allah, pp. 172–173; Kashf al-zunun, pp. 692, 779; Shadharat al-dhahab 3/353; Rawdat al-jannat, p. 449; Hadiyyat al-ʿarifin 1/452. The nisba al-Khabari—spelled with khaʾ, a silent baʾ, and ending with raʾ—refers to the village of Khabar near Shiraz (Fars). It has been erroneously written al-Khayri in al-Nujum al-zahira and al-Jayzi in Kashf al-zunun.
(4) Al-Bidaya adds “brother of Abu Hakim,” while Shadharat al-dhahab reads “Abu Halim”; both readings are incorrect.