Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (6/5)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Volume Six

1 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, grandson of the successor to the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace), Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq * (ʿ)

The Imām, the firmly grounded authority, the jurist; Abū Muḥammad al-Qurashī, al-Taymī, al-Bakrī, al-Madanī.

He heard hadith from his father, from Aslam al-ʿUmarī, from Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr, and from a number of others besides them.

I know of no narration of his from any of the Companions, and he is counted among the junior Successors.

Among those who transmitted from him were Shuʿbah, Sufyān al-Thawrī, al-Awzāʿī, Mālik, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, and many others.

He was an Imām, an unimpeachable proof, devout, possessed of keen legal insight, and of great standing.

Al-Bukhārī recorded in the Book of Pilgrimage, through ʿAlī, from Ibn ʿUyaynah: “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us, and he was the most virtuous person of his time.” (1)

I say: He was the maternal uncle of Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq.

He was born during the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah, and I am amazed that he did not transmit from Jābir and Sahl ibn Saʿd!

The impious caliph al-Walīd ibn Yazīd summoned him, together with a group, to Syria—

(*) Khalifah, Tabaqat, p. 268; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Saghir 1/321-322; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 5/278; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 814; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 1/126; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam 5/102; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 6/254; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 233. (1) Reported by al-Bukhari, 3/466, Book of Pilgrimage, chapter “Perfuming oneself after stoning the jamarat and shaving before the ifadah.” Full wording: “He said that he heard his father—who was the most virtuous man of his time—say: I heard Aisha say, ‘With these two hands of mine I applied perfume to the Messenger of Allah when he assumed ihram, and again when he left the state of consecration before performing tawaf,’ and she spread out her hand.”

الْجُزْءُ الْسَادِسُ ١ - عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بنُ القَاسِمِ بنِ مُحَمَّدِ ابْنِ خَلِيْفَةِ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيْقِ * (ع) الإِمَامُ، الثَّبْتُ، الفَقِيْهُ، أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ القُرَشِيُّ، التَّيْمِيُّ، البَكْرِيُّ، المَدَنِيُّ. سَمِعَ: أَبَاهُ، وَأَسْلَمَ العُمَرِيَّ، وَمُحَمَّدَ بنَ جَعْفَرِ بنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، وَطَائِفَةً سِوَاهُم. وَمَا عَلِمْتُ لَهُ رِوَايَةً عَنْ أَحَدٍ مِنَ الصَّحَابَةِ، وَعِدَادُهُ فِي صِغَارِ التَّابِعِيْنَ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: شُعْبَةُ، وَسُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ، وَالأَوْزَاعِيُّ، وَمَالِكٌ، وَسُفْيَانُ بنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، وَآخَرُوْنَ. وَكَانَ إِمَاماً، حُجَّةً، وَرِعاً، فَقِيْهَ النَّفسِ، كَبِيْرَ الشَّأْنِ. رَوَى: البُخَارِيُّ فِي كِتَابِ الحَجِّ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بنُ القَاسِمِ، وَكَانَ أَفْضَلَ أَهْلِ زَمَانِهِ (١) . قُلْتُ: وَهُوَ خَالُ جَعْفَرِ بنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّادِقِ. مَوْلِدُهُ: فِي خِلاَفَةِ مُعَاوِيَةَ، وَأَنَا أَتَعَجَّبُ كَيْفَ لَمْ يَحْمِلْ عَنْ جَابِرٍ، وَسَهْلِ بنِ سَعْدٍ؟! وَقَدْ طَلَبَهُ الخَلِيْفَةُ الفَاسِقُ الوَلِيْدُ بنُ يَزِيْدَ إِلَى الشَّامِ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ

(*) طبقات خليفة: ٢٦٨، التاريخ الصغير ١ / ٣٢١ - ٣٢٢، الجرح والتعديل ٥ / ٢٧٨. تهذيب الكمال ٨١٤، تذكرة الحفاظ ١ / ١٢٦، تاريخ الإسلام ٥ / ١٠٢، تهذيب التهذيب ٦ / ٢٥٤، خلاصة تذهيب الكمال ٢٣٣. (١) أخرجه البخاري: ٣ / ٤٦٦ في الحج، باب: الطيب بعد رمي الجمار والحلق قبل الافاضة وتمامه: أنه سمع أباه وكان أفضل أهل زمانه يقول: سمعت عائشة ﵂ تقول: طيبت رسول الله ﷺ بيدي هاتين حين أحرم، ولحله حين أحل قبل أن يطوف، وبسطت يدها ".