Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (20/507)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

He was born in 471 AH.

He transmitted most extensively from his step-father, Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn Najāḥ, having recited the seven canonical readings to him and studied books under him. Abū Dāwūd was the most reliable authority in that discipline, and the master copies of his works eventually passed into Ibn Hudhayl’s hands.

He auditioned Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī from Abū Muḥammad al-Raklī (1), Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim from Ṭāriq ibn Yaʿīsh, and Sunan Abī Dāwūd likewise from the latter. Licences were also granted to him by Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Bayyāz (2) and Khāzim ibn Muḥammad.

Al-Abbār said: “In excellence, asceticism and scrupulous piety he had no equal. He was upright, renounced worldly things, fasted frequently, spent long hours in night prayer, gave abundant charity, and patiently bore the constant presence of students around him day and night. The mantle of leadership in Qurʾān recitation rested with him because of his lofty status and mastery of tajwīd and exact transmission. He narrated from an innumerable host of eminent scholars, and he owned an estate.”

I say: Among those who recited to him were Ibn Firruh (3) al-Shāṭibī, Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Murādī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ḥaṣṣār, Ibn Nūḥ al-Ghāfiqī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Rulālah, and several others.

Those who transmitted from him include al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Tujībī and his granddaughter Zaynab bint Muḥammad; both died in 635 AH.

He himself passed away in Rajab 564 AH.

(1) A nisba derived from Rakla, a locality dependent on Saragossa in al-Andalus; see Muʿjam al-Buldan, 3/64. (2) The autograph reads “al-Banan,” which is erroneous. Ibn Nasir al-Din’s Tawdih al-Mushtabih confirms the correct form al-Bayyaz (ba with fatḥa, a doubled ya with a dot below, and zay after the alif). He is Yahya b. Ibrahim b. Abi al-Mursi, Abu al-Husayn Ibn al-Bayyaz (d. 496 AH). In Ibn al-Abbar’s al-Sila, 2/670, the name is garbled as “Ibn al-Bayan” (final nun), and in al-Dhahabi’s al-Ibar, 3/344, and Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3/404, as “Ibn al-Bayyar” (final ra). (3) Pronounced with a kasra on the fa, a sukun on the ya, and a shaddah with a damma on the ra; see al-Mushtabih, p. 514.

وُلِدَ: سَنَةَ إِحْدَى وَسَبْعِيْنَ وَأَرْبَعِ مائَةٍ. وَأَكْثَر عَنْ زَوجِ أُمِّه أَبِي دَاوُدَ سُلَيْمَان بن نَجَاحٍ، وَتَلاَ عَلَيْهِ بِالسَّبْع، وَسَمِعَ مِنْهُ الكُتُب، وَهُوَ أَثْبَت النَّاس فِيْهِ، وَصَارَت إِلَيْهِ أُصُوْل أَبِي دَاوُدَ. وَسَمِعَ (صَحِيْح البُخَارِيِّ) مِنْ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الرّكلِيّ (١) ، وَ (صَحِيْحَ مُسْلِم) مِنْ طَارِقِ بنِ يَعِيْشَ، وَ (سُنَنَ أَبِي دَاوُدَ) مِنْهُ، وَأَجَازَ لَهُ: أَبُو الحُسَيْنِ بنُ البَيَّازِ (٢) ، وَخَازِم بن مُحَمَّد. قَالَ الأَبَّار: كَانَ مُنْقَطِع القَرِيْنِ فِي الفَضْلِ وَالزُّهْد وَالوَرَع مَعَ العدَالَة وَالتقلُّل مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، صَوَّاماً قَوَّاماً، كَثِيْر الصَّدَقَة، طَوِيْل الاحْتِمَال عَلَى مُلاَزِمَة الطَّلبَةِ لَهُ لَيلاً وَنَهَاراً، انْتَهَت إِلَيْهِ رِئَاسَة الإِقْرَاء لِعُلُوِّهِ وَإِمَامَتِهِ فِي التَّجويدِ وَالإِتْقَانِ، وَحَدَّثَ عَنْ جِلَّةٍ لاَ يُحصَوْنَ، وَكَانَتْ لَهُ ضَيعَةٌ. قُلْتُ: تَلاَ عَلَيْهِ: ابْنُ فِيْرُّه (٣) الشَّاطِبِيّ، وَمُحَمَّد بن سَعِيْدٍ المُرَادِيُّ، وَأَبُو جَعْفَرٍ الحَصَّارُ، وَابْنُ نُوْحٍ الغَافِقِيُّ، وَالحُسَيْنُ بنُ رُلاَلَ، وَعِدَّة. وَرَوَى عَنْهُ: الحَسَنُ بنُ عَبْدِ العَزِيْزِ التُّجِيْبِيُّ، وَسِبْطَتُهُ زَيْنَبُ بِنْتُ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَتُوُفِّيَا سَنَة خَمْسٍ وَثَلاَثِيْنَ. تُوُفِّيَ: فِي رَجَبٍ، سَنَةَ أَرْبَعٍ وَسِتِّيْنَ وَخَمْسِ مائَةٍ.

(١) نسبة إلى ركلة من عمل سرقسطة بالاندلس. " معجم البلدان " ٣ / ٦٤. (٢) في الأصل: " البنان " وهو خطأ، والمثبت من " توضيح المشتبه " لابن ناصر الدين، ضبطه بموحدة مفتوحة ثم مثناة تحت مشددة وبعد الالف زاي، وهو يحيى بن إبراهيم بن أبي المرسي أبو الحسين ابن البياز، متوفى سنة ٤٩٦ هـ، مترجم في " الصلة " ٢ / ٦٧٠ وتحرف فيه إلى " ابن البيان " بالنون آخره، و" العبر " ٣ / ٣٤٤، و" شذرات الذهب " ٣ / ٤٠٤، وتصحف فيهما إلى " ابن البيار " بالراء. (٣) بكسر الفاء وسكون الياء وضم الراء المشددة. انظر " المشتبه " ٥١٤.