The Thirteenth Generation
140 – Duḥaym ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī (Kh, D, S, Q)
The judge, leading scholar, jurist, ḥāfiẓ, and chief ḥadīth authority of Greater Syria: Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Dimashqī, judge of the city of Ṭabariyyah, the former capital of the Jordan district.
Today, however, the “mother of the Jordan” is the town of Ṣafad.
He was born in Shawwāl of the year 170 AH, according to his son ʿAmr.
He narrated from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Marwān ibn Muʿāwiyah, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Suwayd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Isḥāq ibn Yūsuf al-Azraq, Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Shuʿayb ibn Isḥāq, Abū Ḍamrah Anas ibn ʿIyāḍ, ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah, Abū Mushir, and many others in the Ḥijāz, Syria, Egypt, Kūfah, and Basrah.
He devoted himself to this discipline, surpassed his contemporaries, collected and authored works, declared transmitters weak or trustworthy, authenticated chains, and pointed out hidden defects.
(*) al-Tarikh al-Kabir (The Major History), vol. 5, p. 256; al-Tarikh al-Saghir (The Minor History), vol. 2, p. 382; al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil (Disparagement and Endorsement), vol. 5, pp. 211–212; Tarikh Baghdad (History of Baghdad), vol. 10, pp. 265, 267; Tabaqat al-Hanabila (Biographical Layers of the Hanbalis), vol. 1, p. 204; al-Ansab (Genealogies), vol. 5, p. 319; Tarikh Dimashq (History of Damascus), vol. 9, p. 421b; Tahdhib al-Kamal (Refinement of Perfection), fol. 773; al-ʿIbar (The Lessons), vol. 1, p. 445; Mizan al-Iʿtidal (Balance of Moderation), vol. 2, p. 546; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib (Revision of Tahdhib), vol. 2, p. 203; al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya (The Beginning and the End), vol. 10, p. 346; Ghayat al-Nihaya fi Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ (The Utmost Aim in the Classes of Qurʾan Reciters), vol. 1, p. 361; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 6, pp. 131–132; Tabaqat al-Huffaz (Layers of the Hadith Masters), p. 208; Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal (Summary of Tadhhib al-Kamal), p. 223; Shadharat al-Dhahab (Golden Nuggets), vol. 2, p. 108.