al-Dimashqī; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Rammāḥ; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Mafākhir al-Maʾmūnī; the Maghribi dignitary Yaḥyā ibn Isḥāq ibn Ghāniya al-Ṣanhājī of Majorca; Yūsuf ibn Jibrīl al-Lawātī in Egypt; Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Fitiyān; ʿUmar ibn Yaḥyā ibn Shāfiʿ, the mu’adhdhin; and the preacher of Zamlakā, ʿAbd al-Karīm.
248 — Ibn Dihya, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb ʿUmar ibn Ḥasan al-Kalbī
The shaykh, the erudite scholar, the ḥadith master, the widely-travelled polymath, Majd al-Dīn, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb ʿUmar ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Jumayyil—al-Jumayyil’s given name was Muḥammad—ibn Faraḥ ibn Khalaf ibn Qūmis ibn Mazlāl ibn Malāl ibn Aḥmad ibn Badr ibn Dihya ibn Khalīfa al-Kalbī, originally al-Dānī and later al-Sabtī.
Such is the pedigree he strung together for himself—how far it is from soundness or continuity! He even used to style himself: “The man of two noble lineages, between Dihya and al-Ḥusayn.”
Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Abbār (1) said: “He claimed that he was descended from Dihya, may Allah be pleased with him.”
(*) The principal biographical sources that mention him include: Ibn al-Dubaythi, Tarikh, fol. 194 (Paris MS 5922); Ibn al-Najjar, Tarikh, fols. 97–98 (Paris); Mirat al-zaman, 8 / 698; Dhayl al-rawdatayn, p. 163; Mansur b. Sulaym al-Iskandarani, al-Dhayl ‘ala Ibn Nuqtah, fol. 73; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-a‘yan, 3 / 448–450; Talkhis Majma‘ al-adab, 5, bio. 406; al-Mukhtasar al-muhtaj, fol. 90; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 4 / 1420–1422; Dawl al-islam, 2 / 103; Mizaan al-i‘tidal, 2 / 252; al-‘Ibar, 5 / 134–135; Tarikh al-islam, fols. 138–139 (Aya Sofya 3012); al-Damiyati al-Husami, al-Mustafad, fol. 62; al-Fayumi, Nathr al-juman, 2, fol. 75; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, 13 / 144–145; Ibn Daqmaq, Nuzhat al-anam, fols. 20–21; al-Fasi, Dhayl al-taqyid, fols. 238–239; al-Falakah wa-l-maflukun, p. 88; Lisan al-mizan, 4 / 292; al-Nujoom al-zahirah, 6 / 295–296; al-Sakhawi, al-Alqab, fol. 54; Husn al-muhadara, 1 / 166; Bughyat al-wu‘at, 2 / 218; Shadharat al-dhahab, 5 / 160–161; al-Maqri, Nafh al-tib, 1 / 368; and additional works.
(1) Al-Takmila, 3, fol. 52 (Azhar MS).