Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (11/433)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Ibn ʿAdī says in al-Kāmil:

Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Qaṭṭān related to us; Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us, saying: “Ibn Lahiʿah wrote to us, on the authority of Abū ʿUshshānah, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, ‘Allah truly marvels at a young man who passes through youth without any lapse.’ (1)”

Muḥammad ibn Khuraym al-ʿUqaylī said: “I heard Hishām ibn ʿAmmār preaching:
‘Speak the truth, and the Truth will lodge you in the dwellings of the people of truth, on a Day when judgement will proceed by nothing but the truth.’”

Muḥammad ibn al-Fayḍ al-Ghassānī said: “Hishām ibn ʿAmmār used to place ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, fourth.”

I say: In this he differed from the people of his city but followed the leading traditionists.

Abū Ḥātim said: “When Hishām grew old, his condition changed.”

Muḥammad ibn al-Fayḍ also said: “I heard Hishām relate:
‘In Jūsiyah (2) there was a wiry man (3) who owned a mule. Each Friday he would set out before dawn on his mule from Jūsiyah—one of the villages of Ḥimṣ—pray the Friday prayer in the mosque of Damascus, then return and spend the night with his family. People were amazed at him.
Later, when his mule died, he looked at its flanks and discovered that it had no ribs at all—only two smooth plates of solid bone.’

Then Muḥammad ibn—"

(1) Its chain of transmission is weak because Ibn Lahiʿa is unreliable. Abū ʿUshāna, whose personal name is Ḥayy b. Yuʾman, is trustworthy. The same report is found in Aḥmad, Musnad, 4/151, through the isnād of Qutaybah b. Saʿīd → Ibn Lahiʿa → Abū ʿUshāna → ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir. (2) The word is pronounced with ḍamma on the first letter, followed by sukūn; the sīn carries a kasra, and the yāʾ is lightly opened. It designates a village belonging to Ḥimṣ, situated to the south of that city on the paved road between Ḥimṣ and Baalbek, about six farsakhs from Ḥimṣ. (3) That is, “tall and well-built.” The poet Ṭufayl says: *Asīla majrā ad-damʿ, khamsānat al-ḥashā,* *burūd ath-thanāyā, dhāt khuluq mushraʿib* (“Her tear-path is smooth, her waist slender; her teeth gleam white, a woman of lofty stature.”)

قَالَ ابْنُ عَدِيٍّ فِي (كَامِلِهِ) : حَدَّثَنَا الحُسَيْنُ بنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ القَطَّانُ، حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بنُ عَمَّارٍ، قَالَ: كَتَبَ إِلَيْنَا ابْنُ لَهِيْعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُشَّانَةَ، عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بنِ عَامِرٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ: (إِنَّ اللهَ لَيَعْجَبُ إِلَى الشَّابِّ لَيْسَتْ لَهُ صَبْوَةٌ (١)) . قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ خُرَيْمٍ العُقَيْلِيُّ: سَمِعْتُ هِشَامَ بنَ عَمَّارٍ يَخطُبُ: قُوْلُوا الحَقَّ، يُنْزِلْكُمُ الحَقُّ مَنَازِلَ أَهْلِ الحَقِّ، يَوْمَ لاَ يُقْضَى إِلاَّ بِالْحَقِّ. وَقَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ الفَيْضِ الغَسَّانِيُّ: كَانَ هِشَامُ بنُ عَمَّارٍ يُرَبِّعُ بِعَلِيٍّ ﵁. قُلْتُ: خَالَفَ أَهْلَ بَلَدِهِ، وَتَابَعَ أَئِمَّةَ الأَثَرِ. وَقَالَ أَبُو حَاتِمٍ: لَمَّا كَبِرَ هِشَامٌ، تَغَيَّرَ. قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ الفَيْضِ: سَمِعْتُ هِشَاماً يَقُوْلُ: فِي جُوْسِيَةَ (٢) رَجُلٌ شَرْعَبِيٌّ (٣) كَانَ لَهُ بَغْلٌ، فَكَانَ يُدْلِجُ عَلَى بَغلِهِ مِنْ جُوسِيَةَ - وَهِيَ مِنْ قُرَى حِمْصَ - يَوْمَ الجُمُعَةِ، فَيُصَلِّيَ الجُمْعَةَ فِي مَسْجِدِ دِمَشْقَ، ثُمَّ يَرُوحُ، فَيَبِيتُ فِي أَهْلِهِ، فَكَانَ النَّاسُ يَعجَبُوْنَ مِنْهُ. ثُمَّ إِنَّ بَغْلَهُ مَاتَ، فَنَظَرَ إِلَى جَنْبَيْهِ، فَإِذَا لَيْسَ لَهُ أَضْلاَعٌ، إِنَّمَا لَهُ صفْحَتَانِ، عَظْمٌ مُصَمَّتٌ. ثُمَّ قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ

(١) إسناده ضعيف لضعف ابن لهيعة. وأبو عشانة اسمه حي بن يؤمن، وهو ثقة، وأخرجه أحمد ٤ / ١٥١ من طريق قتيبة بن سعيد، عن ابن لهيعة، عن أبي عشانة، عن عقبة بن عامر. (٢) بالضم ثم السكون، وكسر السين المهملة، وياء خفيفة مفتوحة: وهي قرية من قرى حمص، تقع إلى الجنوب منها، على الخط المعبد بين حمص وبعلبك، وتبعد عن حمص حوالي ستة فراسخ. (٣) أي طويل، حسن الجسم، قال طفيل: أسيلة مجرى الدمع، خمصانة الحشى * برود الثنايا، ذات خلق مشرعب