Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (8/62)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

every land, and I shall oblige them to abide by it. (1)

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Jarawī said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf narrated to us, from Khalaf ibn ʿUmar, that he heard Mālik say:

“I did not venture to issue fatwas until I had first asked someone more learned than myself, ‘Do you think I am qualified for that task?’ I asked Rabīʿah and I asked Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, and both of them ordered me to do so.

“I said, ‘And if they had forbidden you?’

“He replied, ‘I would have refrained. It is not fitting for a man to put himself forward until he consults someone more knowledgeable than he is.’ (2)

Khalaf said: I once entered upon him and he asked, ‘What is your opinion? (3)

“He then produced a dream that one of his brothers had sent to him, saying: ‘I saw the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—in a dream, in a mosque where the people had gathered around him. He said to them: “I have placed beneath my pulpit some fragrance—or knowledge—that I have held in reserve, and I have instructed Mālik to distribute it among the people.” The people dispersed, saying, “Then Mālik will carry out what the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, has commanded him to do.”’ Mālik thereupon wept, and I rose and left. (4)

Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ said: I heard Ibn Wahb say:

Mālik said, “I have heard many hadiths from Ibn Shihāb, yet I have never related them, nor shall I relate them.”

Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī (5) told me that Ḥusayn ibn ʿUrwah said:

“When al-Mahdī arrived, he sent Mālik two thousand dinars—or, he said, three thousand. After that, al-Rabīʿ came to him and said, ‘The Commander of the Faithful would like you to accompany him (6) to the city of…’”

(1) Cited by the author in Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 1, p. 209. (2) Also recorded in al-Hilya, vol. 6, p. 317. (3) The wording preserved in al-Hilya reads: “He said to me, ‘Look at what you find beneath my prayer rug or mat.’ I looked and found a book, whereupon he said, ‘Read it.’” (4) Al-Hilya, vol. 6, p. 317. (5) A nisba referring to the Jahazima quarter of Basra. (6) That is, he would share the same mahmal (covered litter) and accompany him on the journey to Baghdad.

الآفَاقِ، فَلأَحْمِلَنَّهم عَلَيْهِ (١) . الحَسَنُ بنُ عَبْدِ العَزِيْزِ الجَرَوِيُّ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ يُوْسُفَ، عَنْ خَلَفِ بنِ عُمَرَ: سَمِعَ مَالِكاً يَقُوْلُ: مَا أَجَبتُ فِي الفَتْوَى حَتَّى سَأَلْتُ مَنْ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ مِنِّي: هَلْ تَرَانِي مَوْضِعاً لِذَلِكَ؟ سَأَلْتُ رَبِيْعَةَ، وَسَأَلْتُ يَحْيَى بنَ سَعِيْدٍ، فَأَمَرَانِي بِذَلِكَ. فَقُلْتُ: فَلَو نَهَوْكَ؟ قَالَ: كُنْتُ أَنْتَهِي، لاَ يَنْبَغِي لِلرَّجُلِ أَنْ يَبذُلَ نَفْسَه حَتَّى يَسْأَلَ مَنْ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ مِنْهُ (٢) . قَالَ خَلَفٌ: وَدَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: مَا تَرَى (٣) ؟ فَإِذَا رُؤْيَا بَعَثَهَا بَعْضُ إِخْوَانِه، يَقُوْلُ: رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فِي المَنَامِ، فِي مَسْجِدٍ قَدِ اجْتَمَعَ النَّاسِ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ لَهُم: إِنِّيْ قَدْ خَبَأْتُ تَحْتَ مِنْبَرِي طِيْباً أَوْ عِلْماً، وَأَمَرتُ مَالِكاً أَنْ يُفرِّقَهُ عَلَى النَّاسِ، فَانْصَرَفَ النَّاس وَهُم يَقُوْلُوْنَ: إِذاً يُنَفِّذُ مَالِكٌ مَا أَمرَهُ بِهِ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ ثُمَّ بَكَى، فَقُمْتُ عَنْهُ (٤) . أَحْمَدُ بنُ صَالِحٍ: سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ وَهْبٍ يَقُوْلُ: قَالَ مَالِكٌ: لَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ مِنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ أَحَادِيْثَ كَثِيْرَةً، مَا حَدَّثْتُ بِهَا قَطُّ، وَلاَ أُحَدِّثُ بِهَا. نَصْرُ بنُ عَلِيٍّ الجَهْضَمِيُّ (٥) : حَدَّثَنِي حُسَيْنُ بنُ عُرْوَةَ، قَالَ: قَدِمَ المَهْدِيُّ، فَبَعَثَ إِلَى مَالِكٍ بِأَلْفَيْ دِيْنَارٍ -أَوْ قَالَ: بِثَلاَثَةِ آلاَفِ دِيْنَارٍ- ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ الرَّبِيْعُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ أَمِيْرَ المُؤْمِنِيْنَ يُحبُّ أَنْ تُعَادِلَهُ (٦) إِلَى مَدِيْنَةِ

(١) أورده المؤلف في " تذكرة الحفاظ " ١ / ٢٠٩. (٢) ذكره في الحلية ٦ / ٣١٧. (٣) نص الحلية: فقال لي: انظر ما ترى تحت مصلاي أو حصيري، فنظرت، فإذا أنا بكتاب، فقال: اقرأه. (٤) " الحلية " ٦ / ٣١٧. (٥) نسبة إلى الجهاضمة، محلة بالبصرة. (٦) أي تكون له عديلا في " المحمل " وتصاحبه في سفره إلى بغداد.