99 – al-Rumaylī, Abū al-Qāsim Makkī ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn al-Ḥusayn
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, scholar, and martyr: Abū al-Qāsim Makkī ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rumaylī al-Maqdisī, one of the jawwālīn (itinerant scholars).
Al-Samʿānī said: “He endured great hardship, long nights, and constant travel in pursuit of knowledge. He was trustworthy, scrupulous, devout, and precise. He even began writing a History of Jerusalem.”
He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Sulwān; Abū ʿUthmān ibn Warqāʾ; Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥinnāʾī; ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Fāris; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḍarrāb; Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslimah; Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, and many others in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the Jazīrah, and Āmid.
Those who narrated from him include ʿUmar al-Rawwāsī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Mihrajānī; ʿAmmār ibn Ṭāhir; Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarkandī; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Musallam al-Sulamī; Ḥamzah ibn Karawwas; Ghālib ibn Aḥmad, and others.
— al-Bukhari, no. 2852; Muslim, nos. 1873 and 98; al-Tirmidhi, no. 1694; al-Nasa’i, 6/222; al-Darimi, 2/211–212; and Ahmad, 4/375–376, all through the chain of Amir al-Shaʿbi from ʿUrwa. Ahmad also related the report through several additional isnads going back to ʿUrwa.
Other corroborating narrations appear: from Abu Hurayra (al-Tirmidhi, no. 1636; al-Nasa’i, 6/215); from ʿAbd Allah b. ʿUmar (al-Bukhari, nos. 2849, 3644; Muslim, no. 1871; al-Muwattaʾ, 2/467); from Anas (al-Bukhari, no. 2851); from Jarir b. ʿAbd Allah (Muslim, no. 1872; al-Nasa’i, 6/221); and from Abu Saʿid al-Khudri (Ahmad, 3/39).
For his biography, see: al-Ikmal, 4/226; al-Ansab, 6/166-167; Muʿjam al-Buldan, 3/73; al-Lubab, 2/38; Duwal al-Islam, 2/22; al-Ibar, 3/334; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 4/1229; ʿUyun al-Tawarikh, 13/91; Tabaqat al-Subki, 5/332-333; Tabaqat al-Isnawi, 1/583; al-Nujum al-Zahira, 5/164; Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 449; al-Ins al-Jalil, 1/264; Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 3/398-399; Hadiyyat al-ʿArifin, 2/471.
(1) Tabaqat al-Subki, 5/332, states that he had begun compiling a work on the history and virtues of Bayt al-Maqdis, gathered some material for it, and narrated only a little because he was killed before reaching old age.