Together with him there also died: Hamd al-Haddad (1); Ibn Zakri ad-Daqqaq; Shaykh Abu al-Faraj al-Shirazi; ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Fahd al-ʿAllaf; Shaykh al-Islam Abu al-Hasan al-Hakkari (2); Abu al-Hasan ibn al-Akhdar; Abu al-Muzaffar Musa ibn ʿImran al-Ansari; Nasr ibn al-Hasan al-Tunkuti (3) al-Shashi (4); Hibat Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Warith al-Shirazi (5); and Yaʿqub al-Barzabini al-Hanbali (6).
15 – Abu al-Asbagh ʿIsa ibn Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Asadi
The eminent scholar Abu al-Asbagh ʿIsa ibn Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Asadi, a native of Jaén and an adherent of the Maliki school.
He studied jurisprudence under Muhammad ibn ʿAttab and remained in his close company.
He also received hadith from Hatim al-Atrabusi, Yahya ibn Zakariyya al-Qulayʿi, the qadi Ibn Asad al-Tulaytuli, and Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾsahu.
= Al-Hafiz writes: I found in the handwriting of Ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi the words: “May God burn the eye of Abu Nuaim: he attacks Abu Abd Allah Ibn Mandah—while consensus recognises Ibn Mandah as an imam—and yet he keeps silent about Lahik, whom everyone agrees is a liar.”
I (al-Dhahabi) reply: The disparagement exchanged by contemporaries carries no weight, especially when it is plainly motivated by personal enmity, sectarian bias, or jealousy.
(1) His biography appeared earlier in this volume under no. 13.
(2) His biography will be given later in this volume under no. 37.
(3) In the base manuscript the kaf is vocalised with ḍamma; Yaqut records it the same way in his Mu jam, whereas al-Sam ani in al-Ansab reads it with fatḥa, followed by Ibn al-Athir. Tankat is a town of the Shash region beyond the Sayhun River.
(4) His biography will be given later in this volume under no. 234.
(5) His biography appeared earlier under no. 11.
(6) His biography will be given later in this volume under no. 52.
(*) Main sources: al-Sila 2/438; Bughyat al-Multamis 403; al-Ibar 3/311; al-Maraqaba al-Ulya 96–97; al-Dibaj al-Mudhahhab 2/70–72; Shadharat al-Dhahab 3/377–378; Hadiyyat al-Arifin 1/807; Shajarat al-Nur al-Zakiyya 1/122.