Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

al-Dimashqī, Ibn al-Ḥājib al-Jundī, compiler of The Major Lexicon, one of the brightest of the students and the most diligent among them.
He studied under Hibatu-Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs, Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir, al-Muwaffaq, al-Fatḥ, and their contemporaries; he wrote extensively and even authored works before reaching the age of forty.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Ḥāmid Ibn al-Ṣābūnī and a number of others.

I found in the handwriting of the ḥadīth master al-Ḍiyāʾ: “In Shaʿbān of the year 630 AH our young companion, the ḥadīth scholar Ibn al-Ḥājib, passed away. He was devout, upright, reliable, and keen-minded.”

237 – al-Raḥbī, Raḍī al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ḥaydara ibn Ḥasan
The distinguished, eminent scholar and leading physician, Raḍī al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ḥaydara ibn Ḥasan al-Raḥbī, the sage.

His father was an oculist from al-Raḥba. Yūsuf was born in al-Jazīra al-ʿUmariyya, then lived for a time in Nisibin and in al-Raḥba. Father and son arrived in Damascus in 555 AH. Yūsuf threw himself into study, manuscript copying, and treating the sick. He kept close company with al-Muhadhdhab Ibn al-Naqqāsh and excelled to the point that al-Muhadhdhab publicised his name. He gained high standing with Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, who granted him a stipend of thirty dinars from the Citadel and the hospital; it continued until al-Muʿaẓẓam reduced it, yet he always remained honoured by the state.

He was a leader, lofty in aspiration, deeply exacting, a man of goodness with no trace of harm. He held a teaching chair and trained several prominent physicians.

(*) A biographical notice on Ibn Abi Usaybia is found in Uyun al-anbaʾ and in al-Dhahabi’s Tarikh al-Islam (Aya Sofya MS, fol. 117), as well as in al-ʿIbar, 5/127. In al-Dhahabi’s own handwriting the nisba appears as “al-Rahbi,” yet Shadharat records it as “al-Radi al-Rakhi”—with a geminated khāʾ, referring to the district of al-Rakh near Nishapur—for Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf b. Haydara, the leading physician in Syria.
الدِّمَشْقِيّ، ابْنُ الحَاجِبِ الجُنْدِيُّ، صَاحِبُ (المُعْجَمِ الكَبِيْرِ) ، مِنْ أَذْكِيَاءِ الطَّلَبَةِ، وَأَشَدِّهِم عِنَايَةً. سَمِعَ: هِبَةَ اللهِ بنَ طَاوُوْسٍ، وَمُوْسَى بنَ عَبْدِ القَادِرِ، وَالمُوَفَّقَ، وَالفَتْحَ، وَطَبَقَتَهُم، وَكَتَبَ الكَثِيْرَ، وَصَنَّفَ وَلَمْ يَبلُغِ الأَرْبَعِيْنَ. سَمِعَ مِنْهُ: أَبُو حَامِدٍ ابْنُ الصَّابُوْنِيِّ، وَجَمَاعَة. قَرَأْتُ بِخَطِّ الحَافِظِ الضِّيَاءِ: وَفِي شَعْبَانَ سَنَةَ ثَلاَثِيْنَ وَسِتِّ مائَةٍ تُوُفِّيَ صَاحِبُنَا الشَّابُّ الحَافِظُ ابْنُ الحَاجِبِ. قَالَ: وَكَانَ دَيِّناً، خَيِّراً، ثَبْتاً، مُتَيَقِّظاً. ٢٣٧ - الرَّحْبِيُّ رَضِيُّ الدِّيْنِ يُوْسُفُ بنُ حَيْدَرَةَ بنِ حَسَنٍ * البَارِعُ، العَلاَّمَةُ، إِمَامُ الطِّبِّ، رَضِيُّ الدِّيْنِ يُوْسُفُ بنُ حَيْدَرَةَ بنِ حَسَنٍ الرَّحْبِيُّ، الحَكِيْمُ. كَانَ أَبُوْهُ كَحَّالاً مِنْ أَهْلِ الرَّحبَةِ، فَوُلِدَ لَهُ يُوْسُفُ بِالجَزِيْرَةِ العُمَرِيَّةِ، وَأَقَامَ بِنَصِيْبِيْنَ مُدَّة، وَبِالرَّحْبَة، ثُمَّ قَدِمَا دِمَشْقَ فِي سَنَةِ خَمْسٍ وَخَمْسِيْنَ وَخَمْسِ مائَةٍ، ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ يُوْسُفُ عَلَى الدَّرسِ وَالنَّسخِ وَمُعَالَجَةِ المَرْضَى، وَلاَزَمَ المُهَذَّبَ ابْنَ النَّقَّاشِ، وَبَرَعَ، فَنَوَّهَ المُهَذَّبُ بِاسْمِهِ، وَحَسُنَ مَوقِعُهُ عِنْدَ السُّلْطَان صَلاَحِ الدِّيْنِ، وَقَرَّرَ لَهُ ثَلاَثِيْنَ دِيْنَاراً عَلَى القَلْعَةِ وَالبيمَارستَانِ، وَاسْتمرَّتْ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى نَقَّصَهَا المُعَظَّمُ، وَلَمْ يَزَلْ مُبَجَّلاً فِي الدَّوْلَةِ. وَكَانَ رَئِيْساً، عَالِيَ الهِمَّةِ، كَثِيْرَ التَّحْقِيْقِ، فِيْهِ خَيْرٌ وَعدمُ شَرٍّ، تَصَدَّرَ لِلإِفَادَةِ، وَخَرَّجَ لَهُ عِدَّةُ أَطبَاءٍ كِبَارٍ.
(*) ترجمة ابن أبي أصيبعة في عيون الانباء والذهبي في " تاريخ الإسلام " (الورقة ١١٧ من مجلد أيا صوفيا) ، والعبر: ٥ / ١٢٧ وهو " الرحبي " بخط الذهبي، لكن جاء في الشذرات: " وفيها الرضي الرخي - بتشديد الخاء المعجمة نسبة إلى الرخ ناحية بنيسابور - أبو الحجاج يوسف بن حيدرة شيخ الطب بالشام ... ".

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