132 – Ibn Muqarrab — Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muqarrab al-Kindī
The hadith scholar of Alexandria, a distinguished and precise reader, Asʿad al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muqarrab ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kindī, the Alexandrian, who was deemed upright.
His birth: in the year seventy-four (1).
He wrote from al-Būṣīrī, Ibn Mūqā, the daughter of Saʿd al-Khayr, and al-Artaḥī.
He completed his training under Ibn al-Mufaḍḍal (2), compiled material for himself, and counted among the brilliant students of his time.
Those who narrated from him include al-Dimyāṭī, Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr the bookseller, and his son Muqarrab.
He died in Ṣafar (3), 643 AH.
Ibn al-ʿImādiyya said: “He was reliable, firmly established, possessed of strong memory, precision, dignity, and generosity.”
It was also said: “He was versed in genealogies.”
133 – Ibn Ḥamūd — ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn Ḥamūd ibn al-Muḥassin al-Tanūkhī
A client, an eloquent and exceptional imām, Amīn al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn—
(*) Sources: Sharaf al-Din al-Husayni, Sila al-Takmila, fol. 23; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, Aya Sofya MS 3013, vol. 20, fol. 29; id., al-Ibar, 5 / 177; id., Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 4 / 1432 (obituaries for this year); al-Nujum al-Zahira, 6 / 354; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 5 / 220.
(1) Sharaf al-Din al-Husayni states that he was born in Alexandria on 13 Rabi al-Awwal of that year.
(2) The manuscript reads “bi Abi,” which is erroneous. We have corrected it, for Ibn Muqarrab studied under Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Mufaddal al-Maqdisi, who died in 611 AH.
(3) Sharaf al-Din al-Husayni reports that he died on the night of 13 Safar, whereas al-Dhahabi in Tarikh al-Islam records the death on the thirteenth day of that month.
(**) Ibn al-Shiʿar al-Mawsili, Uqud al-Juman fi Shuʿara hadha al-Zaman, Asad Afandi MS 2325, vol. 4, fol. 53a; Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, Mirat al-Zaman, 8 / 757; Sharaf al-Din al-Husayni, Sila al-Takmila, fol. 34; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, Aya Sofya MS 3013, vol. 20, fol. 30; id., al-Ibar, 5 / 177; =