Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (4/488)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

that he had been a Companion, but this is not sound.

He was deemed reliable and was avid in seeking knowledge.
He transmitted ḥadith from ʿUmar, ʿAlī, Muʿādh, Abū Dharr, ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Maḥfūẓ ibn ʿAlqamah, Rāshid ibn Saʿd, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, Thawr ibn Yazīd, Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr, Sulaym ibn ʿĀmir, Yaḥyā ibn Jābir, and many more.

Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥātim and others said, “His reports are mursal”—that is, he would relate from men he had never met, following the custom of the Syrian scholars; they only began to pay close attention to isnād after al-Zuhrī and the like settled among them.

It was said that Ibn ʿĀʾidh joined the Qurʾān-reciters who rose against al-Ḥajjāj and was captured on the Day of al-Jamājim (1). Al-Ḥajjāj pardoned him because of his distinguished status.

Al-Nasāʾī graded him trustworthy. When he passed away, he left behind numerous scrolls and books.

Baqīyah said: Thawr narrated to me that the people of Ḥimṣ would take the books of Ibn ʿĀʾidh, and whatever legal rulings they found therein they would implement at the mosque’s gateway, content with them and satisfied with his narrations (2).

Baqīyah also said: Arṭāh ibn al-Mundhir narrated to me that a group of soldiers once divided the books of Ibn ʿĀʾidh among themselves by weight, so highly did they value them.

= 799; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4/26; al-Mizzi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 2/214b; Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah, nos. 5147 and 6694; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 6/203; al-Khazraji, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 229. (1) See the explanation of Yawm al-Jamajim (the Battle of Jamajim) on p. 196, note 1, and p. 526, note 4. (2) Al-Fasawi, al-Maʿrifah wa-l-Tarikh, 2/383.

أَنَّ لَهُ صُحْبَةً، وَلاَ يَصِحُّ ذَلِكَ. وَكَانَ ثِقَةً، طَلاَّبَةً لِلْعِلْمِ. حَدَّثَ عَنْ: عُمَرَ، وَعَلِيٍّ، وَمُعَاذٍ، وَأَبِي ذَرٍّ، وَعَمْرِو بنِ عَبَسَةَ، وَجَمَاعَةٍ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: مَحْفُوْظُ بنُ عَلْقَمَةَ، وَرَاشِدُ بنُ سَعْدٍ، وَإِسْمَاعِيْلُ بنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، وَثَوْرُ بنُ يَزِيْدَ، وَصَفْوَانُ بنُ عَمْرٍو، وَسُلَيْمُ بنُ عَامِرٍ، وَيَحْيَى بنُ جَابِرٍ، وَآخَرُوْنَ. قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ أَبِي حَاتِمٍ، وَغَيْرُهُ: أَحَادِيْثُهُ مَرَاسِيْلُ -يَعْنِي: أَنَّهُ يُرْسِلُ عَمَّنْ لَمْ يَلْقَهُ كَعَوَائِدِ الشَّامِيِّيْنَ، وَإِنَّمَا اعْتَنَوْا بِالإِسْنَادِ لَمَّا سَكَنَ فِيْهِمُ الزُّهْرِيُّ، وَنَحْوُهُ-. قِيْلَ: إِنَّ ابْنَ عَائِذٍ كَانَ فِيْمَنْ خَرَجَ مَعَ القُرَّاءِ عَلَى الحَجَّاجِ، فَأُسِرَ يَوْمَ الجَمَاجِمِ (١) ، فَعَفَا عَنْهُ الحَجَّاجُ لِجَلاَلَتِهِ. وَثَّقَهُ: النَّسَائِيُّ. وَلَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ، خَلَّفَ صُحُفاً وَكُتُباً. قَالَ بَقِيَّةُ: حَدَّثَنِي ثَوْرٌ، قَالَ: كَانَ أَهْلُ حِمْصَ يَأْخُذُوْنَ كُتُبَ ابْنِ عَائِذٍ، فَمَا وَجَدُوا فِيْهَا مِنَ الأَحْكَامِ عَمَدُوا بِهَا عَلَى بَابِ المَسْجِدِ، قَنَاعَةً بِهَا، وَرِضَىً بِحَدِيْثِهِ (٢) . قَالَ بَقِيَّةُ: وَحَدَّثَنِي أَرْطَاةُ بنُ المُنْذِرِ، قَالَ: اقْتَسَمَ رِجَالٌ مِنَ الجُنْدِ كُتُبَ ابْنِ عَائِذٍ بَيْنَهُم بِالمِيْزَانِ؛ لِقَنَاعَتِهِ فِيْهِم.

= ٧٩٩، تاريخ الإسلام ٤ / ٢٦، تذهيب التهذيب ٢ / ٢١٤ ب، الإصابة ت ٥١٤٧، ٦٦٩٤، تهذيب التهذيب ٦ / ٢٠٣، خلاصة تذهيب التهذيب ٢٢٩. (١) انظر تعريف يوم الجماجم في ص ١٩٦ رقم (١) و٥٢٦ رقم (٤) . (٢) المعرفة والتاريخ ٢ / ٣٨٣.