the Egyptian, brother of Muḥammad—the mufti of Egypt—and of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the author of the History.

He heard hadith from his father and from Ibn Wahb, and he coupled learning with pious practice.

He was tortured; smoke was forced upon him until he died, oppressed, in 237 AH, while still in the prime of life.

He was accused of holding deposits that belonged to ʿAlī ibn al-Jarawī.

Ibn Abī Dulaym said, “None of his brothers was more versed in jurisprudence than he.”

Because of the Ibn al-Jarawī affair, the Banū ʿAbd al-Ḥakam were charged more than one million dinars, and their houses were plundered. After some time, a letter from al-Mutawakkil ordered their release and the restoration of part of their property. The judge al-Aṣamm was then seized: his beard was shaved, he was whipped, and he was paraded on a donkey. He was a Jahmite and a tyrant.

Abū al-Ṭāhir ibn Abī ʿUbayd Allāh al-Madanī said, “Among Ibn Wahb’s pupils there was no one more accurate—or with a finer hand—than ʿAbd al-Ḥakam.”

Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ said, “The sons of ʿAbd al-Ḥakam produced witnesses that Ibn al-Jarawī had absolved them, but Ibn al-Jarawī’s agent produced witnesses to the contrary, and a major strife nearly broke out. Al-Mutawakkil sent an envoy to recover the money, and he ruled against the house of ʿAbd al-Ḥakam for one million, four hundred thousand, and four thousand dinars.”

67 – Dīk al-Jinn, ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Raghbān al-Kalbī *
Foremost of the poets, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Raghbān ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Ḥabīb al-Kalbī, from Homs, of the Salaman branch, a Shiʿite.