Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

and Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Aḥmad al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad, ʿAlī ibn Shujāʿ al-Maṣqalī (1), and Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Ṣāʾigh. He also held dictation sessions in Baghdad.

Those who narrated from him include: Ibn Nāṣir; Ẓāʿin ibn Muḥammad al-Zubayrī al-Khayyāṭ; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī; and a number of others, the last of them being ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Kulaib.

Ibn Nāṣir said: “He fabricated a hadith (2), dictated it, and was prone to confusion.”

I (the author) say: His transmission from Ibn Raydhah must have been mere attendance (ḥuḍūr), for his own birth—according to what has been mentioned—was in 436 AH, in the month of Rajab, whereas Ibn Raydhah died in 440 AH.

Abū Naṣr al-Yūnārtī said in his Muʿjam: “Ibn Mallah was among the approved imams; in every branch of knowledge he possessed an ample share.” (3)

Al-Silafī remarked: “He was one of the prolific narrators. He transmitted from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Fadwayh and Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Dhakawānī, and his father used to narrate from Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Bayyiʿ, the companion of al-Maḥāmilī.”

Abū ʿUthmān passed away on the second of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 509 AH, in Isfahan.

(1) al-Musqali – pronounced with a short “a” after the m, silent s, and a short “a” after the q – is a family name taken from the ancestor Musqala ibn Hubayra; see al-Ansab. (2) Ibn Hajar notes in Lisan al-Mizan, 1/434: “Had Ibn Nasir actually cited the hadith, it would have been informative.” (3) Ibn Hajar also states in Lisan al-Mizan: “Abu Mansur al-Yazdi declared him reliable, and Ibn al-Najjar reports that Shirawayh the hafiz described him as truthful. I know of no one who disparaged him except what is related from Ibn Nasir, and Allah knows best the real situation.”
وَأَبَا مَنْصُوْرٍ عَبْدَ الرَّزَّاقِ بن أَحْمَدَ الخَطِيْب، وَأَبَا القَاسِمِ عَبْدَ العَزِيْزِ بن أَحْمَدَ، وَعَلِيَّ بنَ شُجَاعٍ المَصْقَلِي (١) ، وَأَبَا العَبَّاسِ أَحْمَد بن مُحَمَّدِ بنِ النُّعْمَانِ الصَّائِغ، وَأَملَى بِبَغْدَادَ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: ابْنُ نَاصر، وَظَاعِن بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الزُّبَيْرِيّ الخَيَّاط، وَأَبُو طَاهِرٍ السِّلَفِيُّ، وَقَوْمٌ، آخِرهُم عبدُ المُنْعِم بن كُلَيْبٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ نَاصر: وَضَع حَدِيْثاً (٢) ، وَأَملاَهُ، وَكَانَ يُخَلِّط. قُلْتُ: ثُمَّ رِوَايَتُه عَنِ ابْنِ رِيْذَه حُضُوْر، فَإِنَّ مَوْلِده - فِيمَا ذكر - سَنَةَ سِتٍّ وَثَلاَثِيْنَ، فِي رَجَبِهَا، وَمَاتَ ابْنُ رِيذه سَنَة أَرْبَعِيْنَ. وَقَالَ أَبُو نَصْرٍ اليُونَارتِي فِي (مُعْجَمه) :كَانَ ابْنُ ملَّة مِنَ الأَئِمَّةِ الْمَرضِيِّينَ، يَرْجِعُ فِي كُلِّ فَنٍّ مِنَ العِلْمِ إِلَى حظٍّ وَافِرٍ (٣) . وَقَالَ السِّلَفِيّ: هُوَ مِنَ المُكْثِرِيْنَ، يَرْوِي عَنْ: عَبْدِ العَزِيْزِ بن فَادويه، وَأَبِي القَاسِمِ عَبْد الرَّحْمَنِ بن الذَّكوَانِي، وَكَانَ أَبُوْهُ يَرْوِي عَنْ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ بنِ البَيِّع صَاحِبِ المَحَامِلِيّ. مَاتَ أَبُو عُثْمَانَ: فِي ثَانِي رَبِيْع الأَوّلِ، سَنَةَ تِسْعٍ وَخَمْس مائَة، بِأَصْبَهَانَ.
(١) المصقلي بفتح الميم وسكون الصاد وفتح القاف، هذه النسبة إلى الجد وهو مصقلة بن هبيرة " الأنساب ". (٢) قال الحافظ في " اللسان ": ١ / ٤٣٤: ولو ذكر ابن ناصر الحديث لافاد. (٣) قال الحافظ في " اللسان ": وقد وثقه أبو منصور اليزدي، وقال ابن النجار: قد وصفه شيرويه الحافظ بالصدق، ولا أعلم لأحد فيه طعنا إلا ما حكي عن ابن ناصر والله أعلم بحقيقة الحال.

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