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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

He was born in 400 AH.

He heard hadith from Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭalḥah, from several shaykhs in Basra, from Ibn Shādhān, and from al-Barqānī in Baghdad.

Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣadafī, Abū Bakr ʿAtīq al-Nafzāwī, Jābir ibn Muḥammad al-Baṣrī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Būshanjī.

He studied jurisprudence with ʿAlī ibn Hārūn al-Baṣrī, authored numerous works, and produced outstanding imams, among them Abū Manṣūr ibn Bākhī and Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḍābiḥ.

Large crowds heard from him; he held dictation sessions and was an ascetic, devout, content, and awe-inspiring.

Jābir ibn Muḥammad said, “He was unrivalled in his time and well-versed in hadith; it was also said that he was an imam in ten sciences.” He died—may Allah have mercy on him—in Ramadan of 490 AH, having reached the full age of ninety.

Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ said, “Abū Yaʿlā al-ʿAbdī used to dictate hadith while two mustamlīs (prompters) stood above him conveying his words to the people; a vast multitude heard from him.”

Al-Samʿānī said, “He was a teacher given to asceticism, rough in his manner of living, tireless in worship, and possessed of dignity and gravity.”⦗1⦘

84 – Ibn al-Akhram ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Madīnī

The shaykh, scholar, ascetic, and last of the authoritative transmitters, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn

(83, continued) Qasamil is a district of Basra; it is still thriving and inhabited, lying between the main part of the city and the bank of the Tigris—I have visited it myself. The name is an isolated, coined proper noun; I know no other occurrence of it in the language. (1) Al-Dibaj al-Mudhahhab, vol. 1, p. 175. (*) Al-Ibar, vol. 3, p. 339; al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 5, p. 168; Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 401.

وُلِدَ: سَنَةَ أَرْبَعِ مائَةٍ. وَسَمِعَ: إِبْرَاهِيْمَ بنَ طَلْحَةَ، وَعِدَّةً بِالبَصْرَةِ، وَابْنَ شَاذَان، وَالبَرْقَانِيَّ بِبَغْدَادَ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الصَّدَفِي، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ عَتِيْق النَّفْزَاوِي، وَجَابِر بن مُحَمَّدٍ البَصْرِيُّ، وَأَبُو الحَسَنِ البُوْشَنْجِيّ. تَفقَّه بعَلِيّ بن هَارُوْنَ البَصْرِيّ، وَصَنَّفَ التَّصَانِيْفَ، وَتَخَرَّجَ بِهِ أَئِمَّة، مِنْهُم: أَبُو مَنْصُوْرٍ بنُ بَاخِي، وَأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ بنُ ضَابح. وَسَمِعَ مِنْهُ خلقٌ، وَأَملَى مَجَالِسَ، وَكَانَ زَاهِداً عَابِداً قَانِعاً مَهِيْباً. قَالَ جَابِرُ بن مُحَمَّدٍ: كَانَ فَرِيْدَ عَصره، وَكَانَ لَهُ مَعْرِفَةٌ بِالحَدِيْثِ، وَقِيْلَ: كَانَ إِمَاماً فِي عَشْرَةِ عُلُوْم، مَاتَ - رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِ - فِي رَمَضَانَ، سَنَةَ تِسْعِيْنَ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَةٍ، وَقَدْ كَمَّل التِّسْعِيْنَ. قَالَ القَاضِي عِيَاض: كَانَ أَبُو يَعْلَى العَبْدِيّ يُمْلِي الحَدِيْثَ، وَعَلَى رَأْسِهِ مُسْتَمليَان يُسْمِعَان النَّاس، سَمِعَ مِنْهُ عَالَمٌ عَظِيْمٌ. وَقَالَ السَّمْعَانِيّ: كَانَ مُدرِّساً مُتَزهِّداً، خَشِنَ الْعَيْش، مُجِدّاً فِي العِبَادَةِ، ذَا سَمتٍ وَوَقَار (١) . ٨٤ - ابْنُ الأَخْرَمِ عَلِيُّ بنُ أَحْمَدَ بنِ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ أَحْمَدَ المَدِيْنِيُّ * الشَّيْخُ، العَالِمُ، الزَّاهِدُ، بَقِيَّةُ المُسْنَدينَ، أَبُو الحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بنُ أَحْمَدَ بنِ

= خطة بالبصرة تعرف بقسامل هي الآن عامرة آهلة بين عظم البلد وشاطئ دجلة رأيتها، وهي علم مرتجل لا أعرف غيره في اللغة. (١) " الديباج المذهب ": ١ / ١٧٥. (*) العبر: ٣ / ٣٣٩، النجوم الزاهرة: ٥ / ١٦٨، شذرات الذهب: ٣ / ٤٠١.