Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (22/61)

for a time; afterwards he returned to Egypt, where he was appointed the sultan’s wakīl (chief agent). He is the author of al-Duwal al-Munqaṭiʿah (The Extinct Dynasties), a work replete with valuable material; Badāʾiʿ al-Badāʾiʿ (1); Akhbār al-Shujāʿān (Chronicles of the Brave); Akhbār Āl Saljūq (Chronicles of the House of Seljuq); and Asās al-Siyāsa (The Foundations of Statecraft). He also composed fine poetry.

Among those who received knowledge from him were al-Mundhirī and Shihāb al-Qūṣī. In his later years he turned his full attention to ḥadīth and engaged in its study without respite.

He lived forty-eight years and died in 613 AH (2).

45 – Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Aḥkām, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Anṣārī *

The upright scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Anṣārī al-Gharnāṭī.

He passed away suddenly in Rajab 614 AH, at the age of eighty-six.

Al-Abbār said: He transmitted from Abū al-Ḥasan Shurayḥ ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Ḥakam ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghashalyān, and Ibn Riḍā—meaning by ijāza.

Ibn Masdī said:

(1) The work is widely available in print. (2) He died on the night of the fifteenth of Shaban of that same year, as noted by al-Mundhiri. (*) Ibn al-Abbar, Takmila, vol. 2, pp. 597–598; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 133 (Aya Sofya 3011).

مُدَّةً، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَى مِصْرَ، وَوَلِيَ وَكَالَةَ السُّلْطَانِ، وَلَهُ كِتَابُ (الدُّوَلِ المُنْقَطِعَةِ) ، فَأَتَى فِيْهِ بِنفَائِس، وَلَهُ كِتَابُ (بَدَائِعِ البَدَائِهِ (١)) ، وَكِتَابُ (أَخْبَارِ الشَّجْعَانِ) ، وَ (أَخْبَارِ آلِ سَلْجُوْقٍ) ، وَكِتَابُ (أَسَاسِ السِّيَاسَةِ) ، وَلَهُ نَظْمٌ حَسنٌ. أَخَذَ عَنْهُ: المُنْذِرِيُّ، وَالشِّهَابُ القُوْصِيُّ، وَأَقْبَلَ فِي الآخَرِ عَلَى الحَدِيْثِ، وَأَدمَنَ النَّظَرَ فِيْهِ. عَاشَ: ثَمَانِياً وَأَرْبَعِيْنَ سَنَةً. وَتُوُفِّيَ: سَنَةَ ثَلاَثَ عَشْرَةَ وَسِتِّ مائَةٍ (٢) . ٤٥ - ابْنُ صَاحِبِ الأَحْكَامِ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ أَحْمَدَ بنِ يُوْسُفَ الأَنْصَارِيُّ * العَدْلُ، العَالِمُ، أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ أَحْمَدَ بنِ يُوْسُفَ الأَنْصَارِيُّ، الغَرْنَاطِيُّ. مَاتَ: فِي رَجَبٍ، فُجَاءةً، مِنْ سَنَةِ أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ وَسِتِّ مائَةٍ، وَلَهُ سِتٌّ وَثَمَانُوْنَ سَنَةً. قَالَ الأَبَّارُ: رَوَى عَنْ: أَبِي الحَسَنِ شُرَيْحِ بنِ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَأَبِي الحَكَمِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَانِ بنِ غَشَلْيَانَ، وَابْن رِضَى -يَعْنِي: إِجَازَةً-. وَقَالَ ابْنُ مَسْدِي:

(١) مطبوع مشهور. (٢) في ليلة النصف من شعبان منها، وذكر ذلك المنذري. (*) التكملة لابن الابار: ٢ / ٥٩٧ - ٥٩٨، وتاريخ الإسلام، الورقة: ١٣٣ (أياصوفيا ٣٠١١) .