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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Ibrāhīm ibn Khalaf al-Andalusī, of Málaga, known as Ibn al-Fakhkhār.

He was born in the year 511 AH.

He heard ḥadith from Shurayḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Ruʿaynī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Biṭrawjī, the qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī, Abū Marwān Ibn Masarra, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī, and their peers.

Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Abbār (1) said: “He stood in the front rank of the ḥuffāẓ, foremost among them, renowned for his fluent recitation of both the texts and the chains of transmission. He combined this with a thorough knowledge of the narrators and an exceptional memory for singular narrations (2). Many notables received ḥadith from him, and leading authorities (3) conveyed his reports to me.”

I heard Abū Sulaymān ibn Ḥawṭ Allāh relate that Ibn al-Fakhkhār had, in his youth, committed Sunan Abī Dāwūd to memory, and that during the period when I met him (4) he would often cite Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim.

He was praised for his piety and merit; everyone acknowledged the eminence of his rank and the soundness of his integrity. Summoned to the royal court in Marrakesh so that people might hear ḥadith from him, he passed away there in Shaʿbān 590 AH.

Abū al-Rabīʿ ibn Sālim said: “Among my teachers was Ibn al-Fakhkhār, universally recognised for his lofty standing, firm trustworthiness, and justice. He was especially close to Ibn al-ʿArabī and transmitted copiously from him. I met him at the Ribāṭ of al-Fatḥ and read to him together with Ibn Ḥubaysh and Ibn ʿUbayd Allāh. They said, ‘Ibn al-ʿArabī informed us; Ṭirād informed us…,’ after which he cited a ḥadith.”

…= Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 4, p. 1355; Ibn Qadi Shuhba, Tabaqat al-Nuhat, fol. 2; Ibn al-Imad, al-Shadharat, vol. 4, p. 303. (1) Al-Takmila, vol. 2, pp. 547–548. (2) Ibn al-Abbar’s Takmila notes: “and he mentioned the gharib (rare narrations).” (3) The Takmila al-Ibariya adds: “leading imams narrated from him.” (4) This comment is attributed to Abu Sulayman ibn Hut Allah.

إِبْرَاهِيْمَ بنِ خَلَفٍ الأَنْدَلُسِيُّ، المَالقِيُّ، ابْنُ الفَخَّارِ. وُلِدَ: سَنَةَ إِحْدَى عَشْرَةَ وَخَمْسِ مائَةٍ. سَمِعَ: شُرَيْح بن مُحَمَّدٍ الرُّعَيْنِيّ، وَأَبَا جَعْفَرٍ البِطْرَوْجِيّ، وَالقَاضِي أَبَا بَكْرٍ ابْن العَرَبِيّ، وَأَبَا مَرْوَانَ بن مسرَّة، وَمُحَمَّد بن مُحَمَّدِ بنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَانِ القُرَشِيّ، وَطَبَقَتهُم. قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الأَبَّارُ (١) : كَانَ صدراً فِي الحُفَّاظ، مقدّماً، مَعْرُوْفاً بِسَرْد المتُوْن وَالأَسَانِيْد، مَعَ مَعْرِفَة بِالرِّجَال، وَحفظ لِلْغَرِيْب (٢) ، سَمِعَ مِنْهُ جلَّة، وَحَدَّثَنِي (٣) عَنْهُ أَئِمَّة. سَمِعْتُ أَبَا سُلَيْمَان بن حَوْط الله يذكر عَنِ ابْنُ الفَخَّارِ: أَنَّهُ حَفِظ فِي شبِيْبته (سُنَن أَبِي دَاوُدَ) ، فَأَمَّا فِي مُدَّة لقَائِي (٤) إِيَّاهُ، فَكَانَ يذكر (صَحِيْح مُسْلِم) . وَكَانَ مَوْصُوَفاً بِالوَرَع وَالفَضْل، مُسلَّماً لَهُ فِي جَلاَلَة القَدْر، وَمتَانَة العدَالَة، طُلب إِلَى حضَرَة السُّلْطَان بِمَرَّاكش ليُسْمَعَ عَلَيْهِ بِهَا، فَتُوُفِّيَ هُنَاكَ فِي شَعْبَان، سَنَةَ تِسْعِيْنَ وَخَمْسِ مائَةٍ. قَالَ أَبُو الرَّبِيْعِ بن سَالِمٍ: وَمِنْ شُيُوْخِي ابْن الفَخَّارِ، مُسَلَّم لَهُ فِي جَلاَلَة الْقدر، وَمتَانَة الأَمَانَة وَالعدَالَة، اخْتصَّ بِابْنِ العربِي، وَأَكْثَر عَنْهُ، لَقِيْتُهُ برِبَاط الفَتْح، قَرَأْت عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَى ابْن حُبَيْش، وَابْن عُبَيْدِ اللهِ، قَالُوا: أَخْبَرَنَا ابْن العربِي، أَخْبَرَنَا طِرَادٌ ... ، فَذَكَرَ حَدِيْثاً.

= وتذكرة الحفاظ: ٤ / ١٣٥٥، وابن قاضي شهبة في طبقات النحاة، الورقة: ٢، وابن العماد في الشذرات: ٤ / ٣٠٣. (١) (التكملة) : ٢ / ٥٤٧ - ٥٤٨. (٢) في (تكملة) ابن الابار: وذكر الغريب. (٣) في (التكملة الابارية) : وحدث عنه أئمة. (٤) الكلام لأبي سليمان بن حوط الله.