from Ibn ʿUmar, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “Whoever raises a weapon against us is not one of us.” (1)
254 – Ibn al-Aʿrabi, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Hāshimī*
He was the foremost authority on the Arabic language: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ziyād ibn al-Aʿrabi al-Hāshimī, a client of the Banū Hāshim, nicknamed al-Aḥwal (cross-eyed) and famed for his mastery of genealogy.
He narrated from Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍarīr (the Blind), al-Qāsim ibn Maʿn, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kisāʾī.
Transmitters who reported from him include Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, ʿUthmān al-Dārimī, Thaʿlab, Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī, Shimr ibn Ḥamdawayh, and others.
He was born in Kūfah in 150 AH.
No one among the Kufans adhered more closely to the Basran style of transmission than he did, and he used to claim that Abū ʿUbaydah and al-Aṣmaʿī “knew nothing.” (2)
(1) Its chain of transmission is sound. The report is also found in al-Bukhari, 13/20 (Book of Tribulations); Muslim, no. 98; and al-Nasa’i, 7/117, all through Nafi‘ from Ibn ‘Umar. Parallel narrations are transmitted from Abu Musa al-Ash‘ari (al-Bukhari 13/20; Muslim no. 100; al-Tirmidhi no. 1459) and from Abu Hurayra and Salama ibn al-Akwa‘ (Muslim nos. 99 and 101). Biographical references: Maratib al-Nahwiyyin, 149-150; Tahdhib al-Lugha 1/20-21; Tabaqat al-Zabidi, 135-137; al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, 75-76; Tarikh Baghdad 5/282-285; al-Ansab 1/310; Nuzhat al-Alba’, 150-153; Mu‘jam al-Udaba’ 18/189-196; Tarikh Ibn al-Athir 7/25; al-Lubab 1/74; Inba’ al-Ruwat 3/128-137; Tahdhib al-Asma wa-l-Lughat 2/295; Wafayat al-A‘yan 4/306-309; Masalik al-Absar 4/30, 231; ‘Uyun al-Tawarikh (obituaries) 231; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 3/79-80; Mir’at al-Jinan 2/106; al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya 10/307; Tabaqat Ibn Qadi Shuhba 2/50-51; al-Nujum al-Zahira 2/264; Rawdat al-Jannat, 596-597; Bughyat al-Wuata 1/105-106; al-Muzhir 2/411; Shadharat al-Dhahab 2/70; Tarikh Abi al-Fida 2/36.
(2) Tarikh Baghdad 5/282; Inba’ al-Ruwat 3/129.