A group of teachers transmitted to us, saying: ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad informed us; Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn informed us; Ibn Ghaylān informed us; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Haytham narrated to us; Ādam narrated to us; Shaybān, from Jābir, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about killing snakes. He replied: ‘The snake and man were each created as an enemy to the other: if he sees it, it startles him, and if it bites him, it may kill him. Therefore, kill it wherever you find it.’”
Jābir al-Juʿfī: feeble (1).
In the year twenty—that is, 220 AH—the leading Qurʾān reciter Qālūn died. He was the grammarian Imām Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn Mīnā al-Madanī, the freedman of Zuhrah. His teacher Nāfiʿ is the one who gave him the honorific “Qālūn,” owing to the excellence of his recitation.
I have set down details of his life in Diwān al-Qurrāʾ (2).
83 – ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh ibn Muslim al-Alhānī * (Kh (3), 4)
The ḥāfiẓ, reliable, devout scholar, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Alhānī (4), from Ḥimṣ.
(1) In al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 1/380: al-Nasai and others judged him “to be abandoned.” Yahya (ibn Maʿin) said, “His hadith is not to be written down, nor is it worthy of respect.” Abu Dawud commented, “In my view his transmission is not strong.” Al-Jawzajani declared, “A liar. I asked Ahmad about him and he replied: ‘ʽAbd al-Rahman dropped him and was relieved.’”
(2) The same compiler also gives him a biographical entry on p. 326 of this volume.
(*) Further sources: Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 7/473; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 6/290; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 6/199; al-Suyuti, al-Muʿjam al-mushtamil, 195; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, fols. 988–989; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 3/71/2; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif, 2/292; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1/384–385; al-Dhahabi, al-ʽIbar, 1/376; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 7/368–369; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, 165; al-Khazraji, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, 276; Ibn al-ʽImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2/45.
(3) The manuscript reads “M,” which is erroneous; the correct reading is taken from Tahdhib al-Tahdhib and its related works.
(4) The nisba derives from Alhan ibn Malik, brother of Hamdan ibn Malik.