Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

in Balad (1) from Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Sahl ibn Khalifah and his brother Muhammad; in Egypt from Abu ʿAbd Allah ibn Nazif and Abu al-Nuʿman ibn Turab ibn ʿUmar; in ʿUkbara from Abu Nasr al-Baqqal; and in Baghdad likewise from Hibat Allah ibn al-Hasan al-Lalkāʾi, Talhah ibn al-Saqar, Ahmad ibn ʿAli al-Badi (2), Abu ʿAli ibn Shadhan, and a number of others.

Those who narrated from him were: Abu Bakr al-Khatib—who died twenty-four years before him—the jurist Nasr al-Maqdisi, al-Khidr ibn ʿAbdan, Hibat Allah ibn Ahmad al-Akfāni, Jamal al-Islam ʿAli ibn al-Musallam, Nasr ibn Ahmad ibn Muqatil, Hibat Allah ibn Tawus, the judge Yahya ibn ʿAli al-Farsi, his son the judge al-Zaki Muhammad ibn Yahya, Abu al-Qasim al-Husayn ibn al-Bunn, Abu al-ʿAshaʾir Muhammad ibn Khalil, ʿAli ibn Ahmad ibn Muqatil, Abu Yaʿla Hamzah ibn al-Hububi, and others.

The hadith master Abu al-Qasim Ibn ʿAsakir said: “He was a jurist versed in the laws of inheritance, one of the disciples of the judge Abu al-Tayyib. He died in Damascus on the eleventh of Jumada al-Akhira, 487 AH.”

Bahjat ibn Abi ʿAqil related that Ibn Abi al-ʿAlaʾ was holding an accounting ledger, settling a man’s accounts, when he looked upward and said, “What is this face? It is the image of a person that has appeared before me!” He then threw the ledger down, lost consciousness, and died.

I say: We have received through his transmission several fascicles, such as the hadith of Ibn Abi Thabit, and the fascicle

(1) Balad: an old settlement on the Tigris, upstream from Mosul; the two are seven farsakhs apart, and Balad lies twenty-three farsakhs from Nisibis. See Yaqut, Muʿjam al-buldan 1/481; al-Samʿani, al-Ansab 2/284, 286. (2) Ibn Nasir al-Din reports in al-Tawdih 1/28/1 that the reason for his nickname is that his mother was pregnant with twins; he was born before his brother, so he was called al-Badi (the one who appeared first), a name by which he became known. He died in 420 AH.
بِبَلَدَ (١) مِنْ أَحْمَد بن الحُسَيْنِ بنِ سَهْلِ بن خَلِيْفَةَ، وَأَخِيْهِ مُحَمَّد، وَبِمصر مِنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ بنِ نَظيف، وَأَبِي النُّعْمَان بن تُرَاب بن عُمَرَ، وَبعُكْبَرَا مِنْ أَبِي نَصْرٍ البَقَّال، وَبِبَغْدَادَ أَيْضاً مِنْ هِبَة اللهِ بن الحَسَنِ اللاَّلْكَائِيّ، وَطَلْحَةَ بنِ الصَّقْر، وَأَحْمَدَ بنِ عَلِيٍّ البَادِي (٢) ، وَأَبِي عَلِيٍّ بنِ شَاذَانَ، وَطَائِفَة. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: أَبُو بَكْرٍ الخَطِيْبُ - وَمَاتَ قَبْلَهُ بِأَرْبَع وَعِشْرِيْنَ سَنَةً - وَالفَقِيْهُ نَصْرٌ المَقْدِسِيّ، وَالخَضِرُ بن عَبْدَان، وَهِبَةُ اللهِ بن أَحْمَدَ الأَكْفَانِي، وَجَمَالُ الإِسْلاَمِ عَلِيُّ بنُ المُسَلَّمِ، وَنَصْر بن أَحْمَدَ بنِ مُقَاتِل، وَهِبَةُ اللهِ بنُ طَاوُوْس، وَالقَاضِي يَحْيَى بن عَلِيٍّ الفرسِي، وَابْنُهُ القَاضِي الزَّكِي مُحَمَّدُ بنُ يَحْيَى، وَأَبُو القَاسِمِ الحُسَيْنُ بنُ البُنّ، وَأَبُو العَشَائِرِ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ خَلِيْل، وَعَلِيُّ بن أَحْمَدَ بنِ مُقَاتل، وَأَبُو يَعْلَى حَمْزَةُ بنِ الحُبُوبِيِّ، وَآخَرُوْنَ. قَالَ الحَافِظُ أَبُو القَاسِمِ ابْنُ عَسَاكِرَ: كَانَ فَقِيْهاً فَرَضياً مِنْ أَصْحَابِ القَاضِي أَبِي الطَّيِّب، مَاتَ بِدِمَشْقَ، فِي حَادِي عشر جُمَادَى الآخِرَةِ، سَنَةَ سَبْعٍ وَثَمَانِيْنَ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَةٍ. حكَى البهجَةُ بنُ أَبِي عَقيل عَن ابْنِ أَبِي العَلاَءِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ بِيَدِهِ دَفْتَرُ حسَابٍ يُحَاسِبُ رَجُلاً، ثُمَّ نَظَرَ إِلَى فَوْق، وَقَالَ: مَا هَذَا الوَجْهُ؟ هَذِهِ صُوْرَة شَخْص قَدْ تَمثَّل لِي، ثُمَّ رَمَى الدَفْتَر، وَأُغمِي عَلَيْهِ، وَمَاتَ. قُلْتُ: سَمِعْنَا مِنْ طرِيقه عِدَّةَ أَجزَاء، كحَدِيْث ابْن أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، وَجُزء
(١) بلد: اسم بلدة قديمة على دجلة فوق الموصل، بينهما سبعة فراسخ، وبينها وبين نصيبين ثلاثة وعشرون فرسخا. انظر " معجم البلدان " ١ / ٤٨١، و" الأنساب " ٢ / ٢٨٤، ٢٨٦. (٢) قال ابن ناصر الدين في التوضيح ١ / ٢٨ / ١: وسبب لقبه أن أمه حملت به وبولد آخر توأما، فولدته قبل أخيه، فقيل له: البادي وعرف به، توفي سنة (٤٢٠ هـ) .

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