Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

spreading knowledge and acquiring books that hardly any scholar anywhere in the world had ever managed to assemble.

An exceptionally large number of people travelled to him—especially after the rule of the Rafidah (1) in Egypt was overthrown and the Syrian army took control of the province. Sultan Salah al-Din, together with his brothers and amirs, journeyed to him and heard hadith from him.

Those who narrated from him include: the hadith master Muhammad ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi, the traditionist Saʿd al-Khayr (2)—both of whom had been among his own teachers—Abu al-ʿIzz Muhammad ibn ʿAli al-Mulqabadhi, ʿAli ibn Ibrahim al-Saraqusti, and Tayyib ibn Muhammad al-Marwazi. Abu Saʿd al-Samʿani transmitted from these last three on al-Silafi’s authority.

Others who reported from him were Yahya ibn Saʿdun al-Qurtubi and al-Saʾin Hibat Allah ibn ʿAsakir; from these two, the hadith masters Ibn al-Samʿani and Abu al-Qasim ibn ʿAsakir conveyed his material.

By ijazah many people—who in fact died before him—also narrated from him, among them the jurist-judge Qadi Iyad ibn Musa.

Among the leading scholars who transmitted from him were ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Majid al-Mayanashi, Hammad al-Harrani, and the two hadith masters ʿAbd al-Ghani (3) and ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Ruhawi, as well as ʿAli ibn

—The excerpts taken from his loose-leaf notes are still found at the beginning of the ‘Arif Hikmat Library copy in Medina of his Muʿjam al-Safar. For further information, see Bashar ʿAwwad’s article on Muʿjam al-Safar, al-Mawrid, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 381. (1) I.e. the Banu ʿUbayd dynasty, incorrectly called the Fatimid state. (2) This refers to Abu l-Hasan Saʿd al-Khayr ibn Muhammad Sahl al-Andalusi al-Ansari (d. 541 AH). Consult: Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam, 10/121; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 4/112; al-ʿAyni, ʿAqd al-Juman, fasc. 16, fol. 164, and other sources. (3) I.e. ʿAbd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (d. 600 AH), author of Kitab al-Kamal fi Asmaʾ al-Rijal and other useful works.
يَنشر العِلْم، وَيُحَصّل الكُتُب الَّتِي قل مَا اجْتَمَع لعَالِمٍ مِثْلهَا فِي الدُّنْيَا. ارْتَحَلَ إِلَيْهِ خلق كَثِيْر جِدّاً، وَلاَ سِيَّمَا لما زَالت دَوْلَة الرّفض (١) عَنْ إِقْلِيْم مِصْر وَتَملّكهَا عَسْكَر الشَّام، فَارْتَحَلَ إِلَيْهِ السُّلْطَان صَلاَح الدِّيْنِ وَإِخْوَته وَأُمرَاؤُه، فَسمِعُوا مِنْهُ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: الحَافِظ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ طَاهِرٍ المَقْدِسِيّ، وَالمُحَدِّث سَعْد الخَيْر (٢) -وَهُمَا مِنْ شُيُوْخِهِ- وَأَبُو العِزِّ مُحَمَّد بن عَلِيٍّ المُلْقَابَاذِيّ، وَعَلِيّ بن إِبْرَاهِيْمَ السَّرَقُسْطِيّ، وَطَيِّب بن مُحَمَّدٍ المَرْوَزِيّ، وَقَدْ رَوَى أَبُو سَعْدٍ السَّمْعَانِيُّ عَنِ الثَّلاَثَة عَنِ السِّلَفِيّ. وَمِمَّنْ رَوَى عَنْهُ: يَحْيَى بنُ سَعْدُوْنَ القُرْطُبِيّ، وَالصَّائِن هِبَة اللهِ بن عَسَاكِرَ، وَحَدَّثَ عَنْهُمَا الحَافِظَان: ابْن السَّمْعَانِيّ، وَأَبُو القَاسِمِ ابْنُ عَسَاكِرَ عَنْهُ. وَرَوَى عَنْهُ بِالإِجَازَةِ خلق مَاتُوا قَبْله، مِنْهُم: القَاضِي عِيَاض بن مُوْسَى. وَحَدَّثَ عَنْهُ مِنَ الأَئِمَّةِ: عُمَر بن عَبْدِ المَجِيْدِ المَيَانَشِيّ، وَحَمَّاد الحَرَّانِيّ، وَالحَافِظَان؛ عَبْد الغَنِيِّ (٣) وَعَبْد القَادِرِ الرُّهَاوِيّ، وَعَلِيّ بن
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