Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (8/170)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

except in those narrations that accord with the trustworthy transmitters; in those he is truthful (1).

Al-Dānī said, “He received the Qur’anic recitation directly from Abū Jaʿfar.”

He also transmitted the variant readings from Nāfiʿ (2).

Hajjāj al-Aʿwar reported the readings from him, and ʿAlī al-Kisāʾī and Ibn Wahb likewise heard them from him.

Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim remarked, “In their eyes he is not a ḥāfiẓ.”

I say: His ḥadith are fair, and some scholars even regard him as an authority.

He died in the year 174 AH.

Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd al-Salām informed us; Hibat Allāh al-Ḥāsib informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzār narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī reported to us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī related to us; Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, from his father, said:

“Al-ʿAbbās took the hand of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) at al-ʿAqaba, when seventy men from the Anṣār had gathered. He pledged them to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and stipulated the conditions on his behalf. By Allah, that was in the very dawn of Islam, before anyone had worshipped Allah openly (3).”

(1) Ibn Hibban, al-Majruhin wa al-Du‘afa, vol. 2, p. 56. (2) Nafi‘ b. ‘Abd Allah b. Abi Nu‘aym al-Madani is one of the seven celebrated Qur’an reciters; he died in 169 AH. (3) The transmitters are reliable, but the isnad is mursal (the link to a Companion is missing).

إِلاَّ فِيْمَا وَافَقَ الثِّقَاتُ، فَهُوَ صَادِقٌ (١) . قَالَ الدَّانِي: أَخَذَ القِرَاءةَ عَرْضاً عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ. وَرَوَى الحُرُوْفَ عَنْ: نَافِعٍ (٢) . رَوَى عَنْهُ الحُرُوْفَ: حَجَّاجٌ الأَعْوَرُ. وَسَمِعَ مِنْهُ: عَلِيٌّ الكسَائِيُّ، وَابْنُ وَهْبٍ. وَقَالَ أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الحَاكِمُ: لَيْسَ بِالحَافِظِ عِنْدَهُم. قُلْتُ: هُوَ حَسَنُ الحَدِيْثِ. وَبَعْضُهُم يَرَاهُ حُجَّةً. تُوُفِّيَ: فِي سَنَةِ أَرْبَعٍ وَسَبْعِيْنَ وَمائَةٍ. أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ إِسْحَاقَ، أَخْبَرَنَا الفَتْحُ بنُ عَبْدِ السَّلاَمِ، أَخْبَرَنَا هِبَةُ اللهِ الحَاسِبُ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ البَزَّازُ، حَدَّثَنَا عِيْسَى بنُ عَلِيٍّ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو القَاسِمِ البَغَوِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بنُ عَمْرٍو، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيْهِ، قَالَ: أَخَذَ العَبَّاسُ بِيَدِ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي العَقَبَةِ، حِيْنَ وَافَى السَّبْعُوْنَ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ، فَأَخَذَ لِرَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَيْهِم، وَاشتَرَطَ لَهُ، وَذَلِكَ -وَاللهِ- فِي غُرَّةِ الإِسْلاَمِ وَأَوَّلِهِ، مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ يَعْبُدَ اللهَ أَحَدٌ عَلاَنِيَةً (٣) .

(١) كتاب " المجروحين والضعفاء " ٢ / ٥٦. (٢) هو نافع بن عبد الله بن أبي نعيم المدني، أحد القراء السبعة المشهورين المتوفى سنة ١٦٩ هـ. (٣) رجال ثقات، ولكنه مرسل.