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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

—al-Kinānī, the Andalusian, from Toledo. He was better known as al-Waqqashī; Waqqash is a village one mail-stage from Toledo.

His birth: 408 AH.

He studied under the ḥadīth master Abū ʿUmar al-Talamankī, Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAyyāsh the preacher, Abū ʿAmr al-Ṣafāqisī, Abū ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥaddāʾ, and a number of others.

Ṣāʿid said, “Abū al-Walīd was one of the perfected men of his era, for he gathered within himself the various branches of learning. He was among the most knowledgeable people in grammar, lexicography, the meanings of poetry, and rhetoric; an eloquent poet, a ḥāfiẓ of the Sunnah and of the names of transmitters; insightful in matters of creed and the principles of jurisprudence; conversant with many legal opinions of the imams; expert in the laws of inheritance, arithmetic, contractual formulas, and geometry; familiar with the full range of the philosophers’ views, possessed of a penetrating mind, pleasant company, gentle manner, and truthful speech.”⦗1⦘

Ibn Bashkuwāl said, “Abū Baḥr al-Asadī—who was closely associated with him—related to us about him. He venerated him, gave him precedence, and described him as vast in the sciences, though certain things have been attributed to him—Allah knows best.⦗2⦘”

ʿIyāḍ said, “He was unrivalled in precision, a skilled genealogist; he produced critical notes and rebuttals in which he pointed out…"

= Sila, 2/287; al-Mutrib, 223; Bughyat al-Wuat, 2/327–328; Nafh al-Tib, 3/376–377 and 4/137, 138, 162, 163. (1) Sila, 2/653, reports that our teacher Abu Ali al-Riyawali used to say: “By Allah, I can only repeat what the poet said: he possessed all branches of knowledge to the point that, in every science, he was judged to have mastered it entirely.” (2) Sila also notes: “Various things have been attributed to him—Allah knows best their truth; He will question him about them and recompense him accordingly.”

الكِنَانِيّ، الأَنْدَلُسِيّ، الطُّلَيْطُلِي. عُرِفَ بِالوَقَّشِي، وَوقَّشُ: قَرْيَةٌ عَلَى بَرِيْدٍ مِنْ طُلَيْطُلَةَ. مَوْلِده: سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَة. أَخَذَ عَنِ: الحَافِظ أَبِي عُمَرَ الطَّلَمَنْكِي، وَأَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ بنِ عَيَّاشٍ الخَطِيْبِ، وَأَبِي عَمْرٍو السَّفَاقِسِي، وَأَبِي عُمَرَ بنِ الحَذَّاءِ، وَجَمَاعَةٍ. قَالَ صَاعِد: أَبُو الوَلِيْدِ أَحَدُ رِجَالِ الكَمَالِ فِي وَقته بِاحتوَائِهِ عَلَى فُنُوْنِ المَعَارِفِ، مِنْ أَعْلَمِ النَّاسِ بِالنَّحْوِ وَاللُّغَةِ وَمَعَانِي الشِّعرِ وَالبَلاغَةِ، بَلِيغٌ شَاعِرٌ، حَافظٌ لِلسُّنَنِ وَأَسْمَاءِ الرِّجَالِ، بَصِيْرٌ بِالاعتقَادَاتِ وَأُصُوْلِ الفِقْه، وَاقِفٌ عَلَى كَثِيْرٍ مِنْ فَتَاوَى الأَئِمَّةِ، نَافذٌ فِي الفَرَائِضِ وَالحِسَابِ وَالشُّروط وَفِي الهَنْدسَةِ، مُشرِفٌ عَلَى جَمِيْعِ آرَاءِ الحُكَمَاءِ (١) ، ثَاقِبُ الذِّهنِ، مَعَ حُسنِ المُعَاشرَة، وَلِينِ الكَنَفِ، وَصِدْقِ اللَّهْجَة. وَقَالَ ابْنُ بَشْكُوَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَنْهُ أَبُو بَحْرٍ الأَسَدِيُّ، وَكَانَ مُخْتَصّاً بِهِ، وَكَانَ يُعَظِّمه، وَيُقَدِّمه، وَيَصِفُه بِالاستِبْحَار فِي العُلُوْم، وَقَدْ نُسِبَتْ إِلَيْهِ أَشيَاءُ - فَاللهُ أَعْلَم (٢) -. وَقَالَ عِيَاضٌ: كَانَ غَايَةً فِي الضَّبْطِ، نَسَّابَةً، لَهُ تَنبِيهَاتٌ وَرُدُودٌ، نَبَّهَ

= ٢٨٧، المطرب: ٢٢٣، بغية الوعاة: ٢ / ٣٢٧ - ٣٢٨، نفح الطيب: ٣ / ٣٧٦ - ٣٧٧، و٤ / ١٣٧، ١٣٨، ١٦٢، ١٦٣. (١) في الصلة: ٢ / ٦٥٣: وكان شيخنا أبو علي الريوالي يقول: والله ما أقول فيه إلا كما قال الشاعر: وكان من العلوم بحيث يقضى * له في كل علم بالجميع. (٢) في الصلة: وقد نسبت إليه أشياء والله أعلم بحقيقتها، وسائله عنها ومجازيه بها.