Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi
  1. Ibn al-Zanf, Muḥammad ibn Wahb ibn Salmān al-Sulamī

He was Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn, Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad, son of the jurist Abū al-Qāsim Wahb ibn Salmān ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Zanf al-Sulamī, a Damascene.

He heard ḥadith from Naṣr Allāh al-Miṣīṣī and Abū al-Durr Yāqūt al-Rūmī.

Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Dubaythī—who met him in Baghdad—al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn Khalīl, al-Zakī al-Mundhirī, al-Shihāb al-Qawṣī, al-Fakhr Ibn al-Bukhārī, and others.

He died in Shaʿbān (1) of the year 606 AH, at a little over seventy years of age (2).

  1. The ruler of Ghazna, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Sām al-Ghūrī

He is the sultan, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Maḥmūd, son of the great Sultan Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sām al-Ghūrī.

He was counted among the great monarchs of Islam. It so happened that Khwārazm-Shāh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn had defeated the Khitans several times, but then he himself fell captive to them together with a number of his emirs. He remained in the service of that prince as though he were his own slave. The prince said to the captor, “Send your pages to my family so they can ransom me with money.” The captor replied, “Then dispatch this page of yours with them to guide them.” He did so, and ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn escaped by that stratagem. When he returned he found that his brother ʿAlī Shāh—his deputy over Khurasan—had set his mind on seizing the sultanate,

(*) Ibn al-Dubaythi, Tarikh, fols. 154–155 (Paris MS 5921); al-Mundhiri, Takmilah, vol. 2, no. 1115; al-Mukhtasar al-muhtaj, 1/153; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 18/1/245. Al-Mundhiri points out that the name Zanuf is read with an open zay and a quiescent nun. (1) On the twentieth of that same month. (2) Al-Zaki al-Mundhiri adds that he was born on the night of 27 Rajab 533 AH (1139 CE). (* *) His life is well known; see Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 12/267 (Beirut ed.); al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 18/1/213. The present notice is more detailed than the one found in Tarikh al-Islam.
٢٦٣ - ابْنُ الزَّنْفِ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ وَهْبِ بنِ سَلْمَانَ السُّلَمِيُّ * الشَّيْخُ، تَاجُ الدِّيْنِ، أَبُو المَعَالِي مُحَمَّدُ ابْنُ الفَقِيْهِ أَبِي القَاسِمِ وَهْبِ بنِ سَلْمَانَ بنِ أَحْمَدَ ابْنِ الزَّنْفِ السُّلَمِيُّ، الدِّمَشْقِيُّ. سَمِعَ مِنْ: نَصْرِ اللهِ المصِّيْصِيِّ، وَأَبِي الدُّرِّ يَاقُوْت الرُّوْمِيِّ. وَعَنْهُ: ابْنُ الدُّبَيْثِيِّ- لَقِيَهُ بِبَغْدَادَ- وَالضِّيَاءُ، وَابْنُ خَلِيْلٍ، وَالزَّكِيُّ المُنْذِرِيُّ، وَالشِّهَابُ القُوْصِيُّ، وَالفَخْرُ ابْنُ البُخَارِيِّ، وَآخَرُوْنَ. تُوُفِّيَ: فِي شَعْبَان (١) ، سَنَةَ سِتٍّ وَسِتِّ مائَةٍ، عَنْ بِضْعٍ وَسَبْعِيْنَ سَنَةً (٢) . ٢٦٤ - صَاحِبُ غَزْنَةَ مَحْمُوْدُ بنُ مُحَمَّد بنِ سَامٍ الغُوْرِيُّ ** السُّلْطَانُ، غِيَاثُ الدِّيْنِ مَحْمُوْدُ ابْنُ السُّلْطَانِ الكَبِيْرِ غِيَاثِ الدِّيْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ سَامٍ الغُوْرِيُّ. مِنْ كِبَارِ مُلُوْكِ الإِسْلاَمِ، اتَّفَقَ أَنَّ خُوَارِزْمشَاه عَلاَء الدِّيْنِ هزمَ الخَطَا مَرَّاتٍ، ثُمَّ وَقَعَ فِي أَسرِهم مَعَ بَعْضِ أُمَرَائِهِ، فَبَقِيَ يَخدُمُ ذَلِكَ الأَمِيْرَ كَأَنَّهُ مَمْلُوْكهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ الأَمِيْرُ لِلَّذِي أَسرَهُمَا: نَفِّذْ غِلْمَانَكَ إِلَى أَهْلِي لِيَفْتَكُّونِي بِمَالٍ. فَقَالَ: فَابْعَثْ مَعَهُم غُلاَمَكَ هَذَا لِيَدُلَّهُم، فَبعثَهُ وَنجَا عَلاَء الدِّيْنِ بِهَذِهِ الحيلَةِ، وَقَدِمَ، فَإِذَا أَخُوْهُ عَلِيٌّ شَاه نَائِبُهُ عَلَى خُرَاسَانَ قَدْ هَمَّ بِالسَّلْطَنَةِ،
(*) تاريخ ابن الدبيثي، الورقة: ١٥٤ - ١٥٥ (باريس ٥٩٢١) ، والتكملة للمنذري: ٢ / الترجمة: ١١١٥، والمختصر المحتاج: ١ / ١٥٣، وتاريخ الإسلام: ١٨ / ١ / ٢٤٥، وقيد المنذري الزنف تقييد الحروف، فقال: بفتح الزاي وسكون النون. (١) في العشرين منه. (٢) ذكر الزكي المنذري أنه ولد في ليلة السابع والعشرين من رجب سنة ٥٣٣. (* *) سيرته مشهورة وانظر الكامل لابن الأثير: ١٢ / ٢٦٧ (بيروت) ، وتاريخ الإسلام: ١٨ / ١ / ٢١٣، وترجمه هنا أوسع مما في تاريخ الإسلام.

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