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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

a wave of persecution; and when the pressure on Ibn Ḥazm intensified, al-Humaydī departed for the eastern lands (1).

Al-Humaydī passed away on the seventeenth of Dhu’l-Ḥijjah in the year 488 AH, at a little over sixty years of age, perhaps more. Abū Bakr al-Shāshī led the funeral prayer over him. He was first buried in the cemetery of Bāb Abrāz, but two years later they moved him to the cemetery of Bāb Ḥarb, where he was laid to rest beside Bishr al-Ḥāfī.

The ḥadith scholar Ibn ʿAsākir said: Al-Humaydī had instructed the eminent Muẓaffar ibn Raʾīs al-Ruʾasāʾ to bury him next to Bishr, but he ignored the request. Some time afterwards he saw al-Humaydī in a dream reproaching him, so he transferred the body in Ṣafar of the year 491 AH. The shroud was still fresh, his body supple, and a sweet fragrance was wafting from him—may Allah have mercy on him—and he endowed his books as a charitable trust (2).

Abū’l-Fahm ibn Aḥmad informed us; Abū Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah informed us. I read before Sunqur al-Zaynī in Aleppo, and al-Muwaffaq ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf informed us; together they said:

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Abī Naṣr, the ḥadith master, informed us in the year 485 AH; Manṣūr ibn al-Nuʿmān in Egypt informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Qāḍī informed us; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ghaḍāʾirī related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Jumaḥī related to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah and Ḥammād ibn Zayd said:

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṣuhayb narrated to us, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:

The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said: “Take the pre-dawn meal, for there is blessing in suḥūr.”

Ibn Mājah recorded it as well (3) through the route of Ḥammād ibn Zayd, and it is singular through

(1) In this regard he says: “I grew so used to distant wanderings that loneliness became my friend, and I came to love them, not the anguish of amorous longing. I cannot count how many fellow-travellers I have joined, nor how many places on earth I have set out for. After roaming the world eastward and westward, I must in the end arrive at the place where I shall fall.” (2) See Yaqut, Muʿjam al-udabaʾ, vol. 18, p. 284. (3) Entry no. 1692.

فِتْنَةٌ، وَلَمَّا شُدِّد عَلَى ابْنِ حَزْم، خَرَجَ الحُمَيْدِيُّ إِلَى المَشْرِقِ (١) . تُوُفِّيَ الحُمَيْدِيّ: فِي سَابع عَشر ذِي الحِجَّةِ، سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ وَثَمَانِيْنَ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَةٍ، عَنْ بِضْعٍ وَسِتِّيْنَ سَنَةً أَوْ أَكْثَر، وَصَلَّى عَلَيْهِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الشَّاشِيّ، وَدُفِنَ بِمَقْبَرَة بَاب أَبْرَز، ثُمَّ إِنَّهُم نَقلُوْهُ بَعْد سنتَيْن إِلَى مَقْبَرَة بَاب حَرْب، فَدُفِنَ عِنْدَ بِشرٍ الحَافِي. قَالَ الحَافِظُ ابْنُ عَسَاكِرَ: كَانَ الحُمَيْدِيّ أَوْصَى إِلَى الأَجَلِّ مُظَفَّر بن رَئِيْس الرُّؤسَاءِ أَنْ يَدْفِنَهُ عِنْد بِشرٍ، فَخَالفَ، فَرَآهُ بَعْدَ مُدَّة فِي النَّوْمِ يُعَاتِبه، فَنَقله فِي صَفَرٍ، سَنَةَ إِحْدَى وَتِسْعِيْنَ، وَكَانَ كفنُه جَدِيداً، وَبَدَنُه طَرِيّاً يَفوحُ مِنْهُ رَائِحَةُ الطِّيب ﵀ وَوَقَفَ كتبه (٢) . أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الفَهْمِ بن أَحْمَدَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ بنُ قُدَامَةَ، وَقَرَأْتُ عَلَى سُنْقُر الزَّينِي بِحَلَبَ، أَخْبَرَنَا المُوَفَّق عبدُ اللَّطِيْف بن يُوْسُفَ قَالاَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ عَبد البَاقِي، أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ أَبِي نَصْرٍ الحَافِظُ سَنَة (٤٨٥) ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَنْصُوْرُ بنُ النُّعْمَانِ بِمِصْرَ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بنُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ إِسْحَاقَ القَاضِي، حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بنُ عَبد الحمِيد الغضَائِرِي، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ الجُمَحِيّ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بنُ سَلَمَةَ، وَحَمَّادُ بن زَيْدٍ، قَالاَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ العَزِيْزِ بنُ صُهَيْب، عَنْ أَنَسِ بنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ: (تَسَحَّرُوا فَإِنَّ فِي السَّحُوْرِ بَرَكَةً) . رَوَاهُ ابْنُ مَاجَه (٣) مِنْ طرِيقِ حَمَّادِ بن زَيْدٍ، وَهُوَ غَرِيْب عَنْ

(١) وفي ذلك يقول: ألفت النوى حتى أنست بوحشتي * وصرت بها لا بالصبابة مولعا. فلم أحص كم رافقت فيها مرافقا * ولم أحص كم يممت في الأرض موضعا. ومن بعد جوب الأرض شرقا ومغربا * فلا بد لي من أن أوافي مصرعا. (٢) وانظر (معجم الأدباء) : ١٨ / ٢٨٤. (٣) رقم (١٦٩٢) .