the imam of the Ḥākim Congregational Mosque, the scholar Qaysar ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Sulamī, the scribe known as Taʿāsīf (1); the Amini College lecturer Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Kāfī ibn ʿAlī al-Rabʿī al-Ṣiqillī; the Aleppine grammarian Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmrūn; the Iraqi muftī Sayf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muqbil ibn al-Mannī; and the emir-minister, the poet Jamāl al-Dīn Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā ibn Maṭrūḥ al-Miṣrī. ⦗167⦘
– Bashīr ibn Ḥāmid (2) ibn Sulaymān ibn Yūsuf, Abū al-Nuʿmān al-Hāshimī: an erudite polymath, Najm al-Dīn, Abū al-Nuʿmān al-Hāshimī al-Jaʿfarī, a Shāfiʿī from Tabrīz and a Sufi, author of the Great Commentary (al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr). He was counted among the leading authorities of the school.
He was born in Ardabīl in 570 AH.
He studied under Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī, Ibn Kulayb, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Mandāʾī, and several others.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Dimyāṭī, al-Muḥibb al-Ṭabarī, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ẓāhirī, al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Sabtī, and others.
(1) This was the sobriquet by which he was commonly known (see al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 98). He probably acquired it after being appointed to supervise the Egyptian administrative bureaus, for his governance was ill-received and he became infamous for harshness and injustice.
(*) Sila al-Takmila by al-Husaini, fol. 51, which traces his lineage back to Jaʿfar b. Abi Talib; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam (Aya Sofya MS 3013) vol. 20, fol. 66; al-Dhahabi’s abridgment of the History of al-Dubishi, al-Mukhtasar al-muhtaj ilayh, 1/263-264, no. 534; al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat, 10/161-162, no. 4633; al-Subki, Tabaqat al-Shafiʿiyya, 8/133-134, no. 1122; al-Aqd al-thamin, 3/371; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-mufassirin (ed. Wahbah, verified by Muhammad ʿUmar), p. 39, no. 24; al-Dawudi, Tabaqat al-mufassirin, 1/115-116, no. 109.
(2) The additional wording is taken from al-Dhahabi’s own marginal corrections to Tarikh al-Islam and from other sources. Only al-Wafi records his name as “Bashir b. Abi Hamid Sulayman.” He will be mentioned under that standardized form in entry 329, among those who died in 646 AH in the present work.