233 – Ibn ʿUlaym, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Anṣārī
The hadith scholar of Tunis, ḥāfiẓ, scholar, Amīn al-Dīn, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ṭalḥah al-Anṣārī, al-Khazrajī by lineage, originally from Shāṭibah and later from Sabtah, universally known as Ibn ʿUlaym.
He was born (1) in 585 AH.
He received narrations from Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥawṭillāh and Abū al-Qāsim ibn Baqī. He performed the pilgrimage in 613 AH, and on that journey heard hadith from ʿAlī ibn al-Bannāʾ al-Makkī, ʿAbd al-Qawī ibn al-Jabbāb, Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī, Ibn al-Zubaydī, Ibn ʿImād, and others of their generation.
Al-Abbār remarked (2): “He came to Tunis in 642 AH, and I heard a good number of narrations from him.”
Ash-Sharīf ʿIzz al-Dīn said (3): “He amassed many books and fascicles, transmitted copiously in Tunis, was known there as ‘the hadith scholar,’ was upright, his auditions sound, and he was devoted to this discipline. In his final days he refrained from teaching, saying, ‘My mind has become muddled,’ and so it was.”
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal (4) of 655 AH.