Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

and:
Never did you so much as cast a glance at anyone
without at the same time decreeing his provision and his span of life.⦗1⦘

‘Those prerogatives belong to God alone! Pull his tongue out through the back of his neck.’ They carried out the order, and he died in 213 AH, departing this world while still a man in his prime.⦗2⦘

42 – al-Jawzajānī, Mūsā b. Sulaymān al-Ḥanafī *
The erudite scholar, the Imām, Abū Sulaymān Mūsā b. Sulaymān al-Jawzajānī, the Ḥanafī, a close associate of Abū Yūsuf and Muḥammad.

He transmitted reports from both of them and from Ibn al-Mubārak. Those who narrated from him include the judge Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Birtī, Bishr b. Mūsā, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, and many others.

He was truthful and dearly loved by the people of ḥadīth. Ibn Ḥātim said, ‘He declared the advocates of the doctrine that the Qurʾān was created to be unbelievers.’⦗3⦘ It is also related that al-Maʾmūn offered him the post of judge, but he declined⦗4⦘, pleading that he was not

(1) Al-Shiʿr wa-l-Shuʿarāʾ, p. 551; Ṭabaqāt al-Shuʿarāʾ, p. 172; al-Aghānī, vol. 20, p. 42. (2) See the report in Ṭabaqāt al-Shuʿarāʾ, pp. 172–173; al-Aghānī, 20/41–42; and Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, 3/352–353. Ibn al-Muʿtazz deems it more probable that al-Maʾmūn pardoned him and that he died a natural death. (*) Jarḥ wa-Taʿdīl, 8/145; al-Ansāb, 3/362; Tāj al-Tarājim, p. 55; Hadiyyat al-ʿĀrifīn, 2/477; al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya, 2/186–187; al-Fawāʾid al-Bahiyya, p. 216; Iḍāḥ al-Maknūn, 2/33, 681. (3) Jarḥ wa-Taʿdīl, 8/145. (4) al-Fawāʾid al-Bahiyya, p. 216.
وَمَا مَدَدْتَ مَدَى طَرْفٍ إِلَى أَحَدٍ ... إِلاَّ قَضَيْتَ بِأَرْزَاقٍ وَآجَالِ (١) ذَاكَ هُوَ اللهُ، أَخْرِجُوا لِسَانَهُ مِنْ قَفَاهُ. فَفَعَلُوا بِهِ، فَمَاتَ (٢) سَنَةَ ثَلاَثَ عَشْرَةَ وَمائَتَيْنِ، وَمَاتَ كَهْلاً. ٤٢ - الجَوْزَجَانِيُّ مُوْسَى بنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الحَنَفِيُّ * العَلاَّمَةُ، الإِمَامُ، أَبُو سُلَيْمَانَ مُوْسَى بنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الجَوْزَجَانِيُّ، الحَنَفِيُّ، صَاحِبُ أَبِي يُوْسُفَ وَمُحَمَّدٍ. حَدَّثَ: عَنْهُمَا، وَعَنِ: ابْنِ المُبَارَكِ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: القَاضِي أَحْمَدُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ البِرْتِيُّ، وَبِشْرُ بنُ مُوْسَى، وَأَبُو حَاتِمٍ الرَّازِيُّ، وَآخَرُوْنَ. وَكَانَ صَدُوْقاً، مَحْبُوباً إِلَى أَهْلِ الحَدِيْثِ. قَالَ ابْنُ حَاتَمٍ: كَانَ يُكَفِّرُ القَائِلِيْنَ بِخَلْقِ القُرْآنِ (٣) . وَقِيْلَ: إِنَّ المَأْمُوْنَ عَرَضَ عَلَيْهِ القَضَاءَ، فَامْتَنَعَ (٤) ، وَاعْتَلَّ بِأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ
(١) " الشعر والشعراء " ص ٥٥١، و" طبقات الشعراء " ص ١٧٢، والاغاني ٢٠ / ٤٢. (٢) انظر الخبر في " طبقات الشعراء " ص ١٧٢، ١٧٣، و" الاغاني " ٢٠ / ٤١، ٤٢، و" وفيات الأعيان " ٣ / ٣٥٢، ٣٥٣، ورجح ابن المعتز أن المأمون عفا عنه، وأنه مات حتف أنفه. (*) الجرح والتعديل ٨ / ١٤٥، الأنساب ٣ / ٣٦٢، تاج التراجم: ٥٥، هدية العارفين ٢ / ٤٧٧، الجواهر المضية ٢ / ١٨٦، ١٨٧، الفوائد البهية: ٢١٦، إيضاح المكنون ٢ / ٣٣، و٦٨١. (٣) " الجرح والتعديل " ٨ / ١٤٥. (٤) " الفوائد البهية " ص ٢١٦.

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