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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

He was born in the year 64 AH (1).

He travelled in search of knowledge and heard ḥadīth from Ibn Shātil, al-Qazzāz, and—while in Nīshāpūr—from ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Furāwī; in Hamadhān from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-ʿAṭṭār; and in Damascus from Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Ṣābir, Abū al-Fahm ibn Abī al-ʿAjāʾiz, and several others.

He stayed in Bukhara for a time (2), studying under Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Sharaf, and he acquired the science of khilāf (dialectical jurisprudence) from al-Raḍī al-Nīshāpūrī. He was intelligent, versatile, a sharp debater, dignified, eloquent, noble, and a conclusive proof—everyone spoke well of him.

Those who narrated from him include his brother, his son, his nephew Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Kamāl, his cousin Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Qūṣī, al-ʿIzz ibn al-ʿImād, Ibn al-Farrāʾ, Muḥammad ibn al-Wāsiṭī, and Khadīja bint al-Raḍī.

He was one of the great vessels of knowledge and spent a period residing in Ḥimṣ.

He passed away in mid-Jumādā al-Ākhira, 623 AH.

141 – Ibn Dumdum, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Rabʿī *

The jurist of the Maghrib, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad, son of the renowned scholar ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Rabʿī; a Tunisian Mālikī who served as the muftī of Granada.

Ibn Masdī said, “Of all the people I have met, he is the most knowledgeable of Mālik’s school.” He studied jurisprudence under his father, Dumdum, and heard ḥadīth from the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq.

(1) Al-Mundhiri reports that he was born during the last ten days of Shawwal of that year. (2) Hence he came to be called “al-Bukhari.” (*) Ibn al-Abar listed his biography among the “strangers” in al-Takmila, 1/128, without mentioning his death; another entry appears in al-Dhahabi’s Tarikh al-Islam (folio 28, Aya Sofya 3012), added in the margin in the author’s own hand and citing Ibn Masdi.

وُلِدَ: سَنَةَ أَرْبَعٍ وَسِتِّيْنَ (١) . وَارْتَحَلَ فَسَمِعَ مِنِ: ابْنِ شَاتيلَ، وَالقَزَّازِ، وَبِنَيْسَابُوْرَ مِنْ: عَبْدِ المُنْعِمِ ابنِ الفُرَاوِيِّ، وَبِهَمَذَانَ مِنْ: عَلِيِّ بنِ عَبْدِ الكَرِيْمِ العَطَّارِ، وَبِدِمَشْقَ مِنْ: أَبِي المَعَالِي بنِ صَابِرٍ، وَأَبِي الفَهْمِ ابنِ أَبِي العَجَائِزِ، وَعِدَّةٍ. وَأَقَامَ بِبُخَارَى مُدَّةً (٢) يَشتغلُ عَلَى أَبِي الخَطَّابِ شرفٍ، وَأَخَذَ الخلاَفَ عَنِ الرَّضِيِّ النَّيْسَابُوْرِيِّ، وَكَانَ ذَكيّاً مُفَنَّناً، مُنَاظراً، وَقُوْراً، فَصِيْحاً، نَبيلاً، حُجَّةً، كُلُّ أَحَدٍ يُثنِي عَلَيْهِ. رَوَى عَنْهُ: أَخُوْهُ، وَوَلَدُهُ، وَابْنُ أَخِيْهِ شَمْسُ الدِّيْنِ مُحَمَّدُ ابنُ الكَمَالِ، وَابْنُ خَالِهِ الشَّيْخُ شَمْسُ الدِّيْنِ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَانِ، وَالقُوْصِيُّ، وَالعِزُّ ابنُ العِمَادِ، وَابْنُ الفَرَّاءِ، وَمُحَمَّدُ ابنُ الوَاسِطِيِّ، وَخَدِيْجَةُ بِنْتُ الرَّضِيِّ. وَكَانَ مِنْ أَوْعِيَةِ العِلْمِ، نَزلَ حِمْصَ مُدَّةً. وَمَاتَ: فِي نِصْفِ جُمَادَى الآخِرَةِ، سَنَةَ ثَلاَثٍ وَعِشْرِيْنَ وَسِتِّ مائَةٍ. ١٤١ - ابْنُ دُمْدُمٍ أَحْمَدُ بنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بنِ أَحْمَدَ الرَّبَعِيُّ * فَقِيْهُ المَغْرِبِ، أَبُو العَبَّاسِ أَحْمَدُ ابنُ العَلاَّمَةِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَانِ بنِ أَحْمَدَ الرَّبَعِيُّ، التُّوْنُسِيُّ، المَالِكِيُّ، مُفْتِي غَرْنَاطَةَ. قَالَ ابْنُ مَسْدِيٍّ: هُوَ أَحْفَظُ مَنْ لَقِيْتُ لِمَذْهَبِ مَالِكٍ، تَفَقَّهَ بِأَبِيْهِ دُمْدُمٍ، وَسَمِعَ مِنَ الحَافِظِ عَبْدِ الحَقِّ.

(١) ذكر المنذري أن مولده في العشر الاواخر من شوال من السنة. (٢) لذلك عرف بالبخاري. (*) ترجمه ابن الابار مع الغرباء من " التكملة ": ١ / ١٢٨ ولم يذكر وفاته، وترجمته في " تاريخ الإسلام " (الورقة: ٢٨ أياصوفيا ٣٠١٢) ملحقة بحاشية الورقة المذكورة بخط المؤلف نقلا عن ابن مسدي.