Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (20/7)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

as well as ʿUmar ibn Ṭabarzād, Yaḥyā ibn Yāqūt, Fāṭimah bint Saʿd al-Khayr, and a number of others.

Al-Samʿānī relates: “I heard the ḥadith master ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā al-Andalusī speak highly of Yaḥyā ibn al-Bannāʾ, praising and lauding him. He portrayed him as learned, discerning, virtuous, of fine character, free from idle pursuits, a man who kept the mosque thriving and attended it constantly. I have seen no one like him among the Ḥanbalīs of Baghdad (1).”

Al-Samʿānī added: “Everyone who heard him likewise spoke well of him and praised him.”

He was born in 453 AH, and he died on the eighth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 531 AH.

His brother Abū Ghālib has already been mentioned (2).

Another brother, Abū al-Faḍl Ibrāhīm ibn al-Bannāʾ (3), had predeceased them in 518 AH at the age of seventy. He transmitted ḥadith from Ibn al-Muhtadī bi-Allāh and Ibn al-Naqqūr, and among those who narrated from him was Yaḥyā ibn Bawsh.

In that same year (4) there also passed away: Abū al-Qāsim Tamīm al-Jurjānī (5); Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Farḥān al-Sumnānī; Ṭāhir ibn Sahl al-Isfarāʾīnī (6) in Damascus; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Hamadānī (7), the ḥadith scholar; and Hibah Allāh ibn al-Ṭabar al-Ḥarīrī (8), the Qurʾān reciter.

(1) See Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila, 1/189. (2) The entry is located in vol. 19, no. 352; their father al-Hasan was already treated in vol. 18, no. 185. (3) No biographical sources could be found for him. (4) I.e. in the year 531 AH. (5) His biography will appear later in this volume, no. 11. (6) His entry has already been given in vol. 19, no. 341. (7) See his biography in al-Ibar 4/85; al-Nujum al-Zahira 5/260; Shadharat al-Dhahab 4/97. (8) His entry has already been given in vol. 19, no. 343.

وَعُمَرُ بنُ طَبَرْزَدَ، وَيَحْيَى بنُ يَاقُوْتٍ، وَفَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ سَعْدِ الخَيْرِ، وَآخَرُوْنَ. قَالَ السَّمْعَانِيُّ: سَمِعْتُ الحَافِظَ عَبْدَ اللهِ بنَ عِيْسَى الأَنْدَلُسِيَّ يُثْنِي عَلَى يَحْيَى بنِ البَنَّاءِ، وَيَمدَحُهُ وَيُطرِيهِ، وَيَصِفُهُ بِالعِلْمِ وَالتَّمْيِيْزِ وَالفَضْلِ، وَحُسْنِ الأَخلاَقِ، وَتَركِ الفُضُولِ، وَعِمَارَةِ المَسْجَدِ وَمُلاَزَمَتِهِ، مَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَهُ فِي حَنَابِلَةِ بَغْدَادَ (١) . قَالَ السَّمْعَانِيُّ: وَكَذَا كُلُّ مَنْ سَمِعَهُ كَانَ يُثْنِي عَلَيْهِ، وَيَمدَحُهُ. وُلِدَ: سَنَةَ ثَلاَثٍ وَخَمْسِيْنَ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَةٍ. وَتُوُفِّيَ: فِي ثَامنِ رَبِيْعٍ الأَوَّلِ، سَنَةَ إِحْدَى وَثَلاَثِيْنَ وَخَمْسِ مائَةٍ. وَقَدْ مَرَّ أَخُوْهُ أَبُو غَالِبٍ (٢) . وَمَاتَ قَبْلَهُمَا أَخُوْهُمَا أَبُو الفَضْلِ إِبْرَاهِيْمُ (٣) بنُ البَنَّاءِ سَنَةَ ثَمَانِي عَشْرَةَ وَخَمْسِ مائَةٍ، وَلَهُ سَبْعُوْنَ سَنَةً، يَرْوِي عَنِ ابْنِ المُهْتَدِي بِاللهِ، وَابْنِ النَّقُّوْرِ. سَمِعَ مِنْهُ: يَحْيَى بنُ بَوْشٍ. وَفِيْهَا (٤) تُوُفِّيَ: أَبُو القَاسِمِ تَمِيْمٌ الجُرْجَانِيُّ (٥) ، وَأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الحُسَيْنُ بنُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ الفَرْحَانِ السُّمْنَانِيُّ، وَطَاهِرُ بنُ سَهْلٍ الإِسْفَرَايِيْنِيُّ (٦) بِدِمَشْقَ، وَأَبُو جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ أَبِي عَلِيٍّ الهَمَذَانِيُّ (٧) المُحَدِّثُ، وَهِبَةُ اللهِ بنُ الطَّبَرِ الحَرِيْرِيُّ المُقْرِئُ (٨) .

(١) انظر " ذيل طبقات الحنابلة " ١ / ١٨٩. (٢) في الجزء التاسع عشر برقم (٣٥٢) ، ومرت ترجمة أبيهما الحسن في الجزء الثامن عشر برقم (١٨٥) . (٣) لم نعثر له على مصادر ترجمته. (٤) أي في سنة ٥٣١. (٥) سترد ترجمته في هذا الجزء برقم (١١) . (٦) مرت ترجمته في الجزء التاسع عشر برقم (٣٤١) . (٧) انظر ترجمته في العبر ٤ / ٨٥، النجوم الزاهرة ٥ / ٢٦٠، شذرات الذهب ٤ / ٩٧. (٨) مرت ترجمته في الجزء التاسع عشر برقم (٣٤٣) .