Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (7/451)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Yaḥyā al-Yazīdī (1) composed an elegy in which he says:
O student of grammar, mourn for him now …
After Abū ʿAmr and Ḥammād (2)

Some transmitters report that Ḥammād ibn Salamah married seventy women, yet he never had a child (3).

Al-Bukhārī said: Ādam narrated to us, saying, “I was present with Ḥammād ibn Salamah when the authorities summoned him, but he declared, ‘Shall I carry this red beard of mine to those people? By Allah, I will never do it.’”

It is also related that Ḥammād ibn Salamah’s supplications were answered.

Abū Dāwūd said, “Ḥammād ibn Salamah owned no book other than the book of Qays ibn Saʿd.”

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mughīrah transmitted from Ḥammād ibn Salamah that he recounted to them the ḥadīth of the Lord’s descent (4) and then said, “If you see anyone rejecting this, hold him suspect.”

ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said: Yaḥyā related that Shuʿbah said, “Ḥammād ibn Salamah used to transmit to me from Muḥammad ibn Ziyād—meaning al-Qurashī, the companion of Abū Hurayrah.” I asked Yaḥyā, “Did Ḥammād actually transmit from him?” He replied, “As far as I know.”

Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd then remarked, “Ḥammād ibn Salamah’s transmissions from Ziyād al-Aʿlam are sound, but Qays ibn Saʿd is not of that calibre, if what he narrated from Qays ibn …”

(1) Yahya ibn al-Mubarak ibn al-Mughira al-Adawi al-Yazidi, Abu Muhammad, was a specialist in Arabic philology and Qurʾanic recitation. He studied the qiraʾa directly with Abu Amr al-Basri, one of the seven canonical readers, and succeeded him in teaching it. Among his own pupils were al-Duri and al-Susi. Born in Basra, he later settled in Baghdad, where Caliph al-Rashid appointed him tutor to the future al-Maʾmun. He lived into al-Maʾmun’s caliphate and died in Marw in 202/817–18. For his biography, see: Tarikh Baghdad 14:146–48; Muʿjam al-udabaʾ 20:30–32; al-Wafayat 6:183–91; al-Nujum al-zahira 2:173; Tabaqat al-qurraʾ 2:375. (2) The line of poetry is cited in Inbaʾ al-ruwat 1:330, Muʿjam al-udabaʾ 10:258, and Mizān al-iʿtidal 1:592. (3) See Mizān al-iʿtidal 1:591 and Tahdhib al-tahdhib 3:13. (4) The sourcing of this report has already been given above, p. 427, note 1.

وَلِيَحْيَى اليزِيْدِيِّ (١) مَرْثِيَّةٌ يَقُوْلُ فِيْهَا: يَا طَالِبَ النَّحْوِ أَلاَ فَابْكِهِ ... بَعْدَ أَبِي عَمْرٍو وَحَمَّادِ (٢) وَنَقَلَ بَعْضُهُم: أَنَّ حَمَّادَ بنَ سَلَمَةَ تَزَوَّجَ سَبْعِيْنَ امْرَأَةً، وَلَمْ يُولَدْ لَهُ وَلَدٌ (٣) . قَالَ البُخَارِيُّ: حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ، قَالَ: شَهِدتُ حَمَّادَ بنَ سَلَمَةَ، وَدَعَوْهُ -يَعْنِي: الدَّوْلَةَ- فَقَالَ: أَحْمِلُ لِحْيَةً حَمْرَاءَ إِلَى هَؤُلاَءِ؟ وَاللهِ لاَ فَعَلتُ. وَرُوِيَ: أَنَّ حَمَّادَ بنَ سَلَمَةَ كَانَ مُجَابَ الدَّعْوَةِ. قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ: لَمْ يَكُنْ لِحَمَّادِ بنِ سَلَمَةَ كِتَابٌ، سِوَى كِتَابِ قَيْسِ بنِ سَعْدٍ. وَرَوَى: عَبْدُ العَزِيْزِ بنُ المُغِيْرَةِ، عَنْ حَمَّادِ بنِ سَلَمَةَ: أَنَّهُ حَدَّثَهُم بِحَدِيْثِ نُزُوْلِ الرَّبِّ ﷿ (٤) - فَقَالَ: مَنْ رَأَيتُمُوْهُ يُنْكِرُ هَذَا، فَاتَّهِمُوْهُ. قَالَ عَلِيُّ بنُ المَدِيْنِيِّ: قَالَ يَحْيَى: قَالَ شُعْبَةُ: كَانَ حَمَّادُ بنُ سَلَمَةَ يُفِيْدُنِي عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ زِيَادٍ -يَعْنِي: القُرَشِيَّ، صَاحِبَ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ- فَقُلْتُ لِيَحْيَى: كَانَ حَمَّادٌ يُفِيْدُهُ؟ قَالَ: فِيْمَا أَعْلَمُ. ثُمَّ قَالَ يَحْيَى بنُ سَعِيْدٍ: حَمَّادُ بنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ زِيَادٍ الأَعْلَمِ، وَقَيْسِ بنِ سَعْدٍ لَيْسَ بِذَاكَ، إِنْ كَانَ مَا حَدَّثَ بِهِ عَنْ قَيْسِ بنِ

(١) هو يحيى بن المبارك بن المغيرة العدوي اليزيدي، أبو محمد: عالم بالعربية والقراءة، أخذ القراءة عرضا عن أبي عمرو البصري أحد القراء السبع، وهو الذي خلفه بالقيام بها، وممن تلقاها عنه الدوري والسوسي. كان من أهل البصرة، وسكن بغداد واتصل بالرشيد فعهد إليه بتأديب المأمون، وعاش إلى أيام خلافته، وتوفي بمرو سنة (٢٠٢ هـ) . انظر ترجمته: تاريخ بغداد: ١٤ / ١٤٦ - ١٤٨، معجم الأدباء: ٢٠ / ٣٠ - ٣٢، الوفيات: ٦ / ١٨٣ - ١٩١، النجوم الزاهرة: ٢ / ١٧٣، طبقات القراء: ٢ / ٣٧٥. (٢) البيت في " إنباه الرواة ": ١ / ٣٣٠، " معجم الأدباء ": ١٠ / ٢٥٨، " ميزان الاعتدال ": ١ / ٥٩٢. (٣) انظر: " الميزان ": ١ / ٥٩١، " تهذيب التهذيب ": ٣ / ١٣. (٤) تقدم تخريجه في الصفحة: ٤٢٧ حا: ١.