Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

It is related from al-Ribāṭī that he said: “I went to Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, and he would not so much as lift his head toward me. So I said, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, ḥadith is being written down from me in Khurāsān; if you treat me like this, they will throw my reports away.’ He replied, ‘Ahmad, must it not be said on the Day of Resurrection, “Where is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir and his followers?”—so consider well where you will be in relation to him!’ I said, ‘I was only put in charge of the affairs of the ribāṭ (frontier garrison).’ Yet he kept repeating those words to me (1).

Al-Ribāṭī died in 245 AH. It has also been said: 243 AH.

Ibn ʿAsākir informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Saʿd informed us; Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; al-Faḍl ibn al-Muḥibb informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Khaffāf informed us; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Ribāṭī narrated to us; Maḥbūb ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us; Dāwūd narrated from al-Shaʿbī, from Masrūq, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“Prayer for both the resident and the traveller was originally prescribed as two rakʿahs, two rakʿahs (units of prayer) (2). When the Messenger of Allah settled in Medina, two additional rakʿahs were added to the prayer of the resident, while the dawn prayer was left unchanged because of the length of its recitation, and the sunset prayer because it is the witr (odd-numbered prayer) of the daytime” (3).

(1) Tarikh Baghdad, 4/166. Al-Khatib says of him: “He was reliable, virtuous, perceptive, and learned.” Ibn Saʿid also reports: “I heard ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Yusuf speak about al-Ribbati; he was thoroughly trustworthy.” (2) The manuscript reads: “two rakaʿas, two rakaʿas” (i.e., to be prayed in pairs). (3) Ibn Khuzaymah (no. 305) records the report through two chains via Mahbub ibn al-Hasan with the same isnad; Ibn Hibban (no. 544) transmits it through al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Maʿshar, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Salih, from Mahbub ibn al-Hasan. Mahbub—whose given name was Muhammad, Mahbub being a nickname—is graded by Ibn Hajar in al-Taqrib as “truthful, but with some weakness.” Ibn Khuzaymah remarks: “This hadith is gharib; to my knowledge no one has transmitted it with a complete chain except Mahbub ibn al-Hasan. The followers of Dawud narrate it from al-Shaʿbi on the authority of ʿAʾishah, except Mahbub ibn al-Hasan.” I note that the interrupted version appears in Ahmad, 6/241 and 265, through two routes from Dawud. Nevertheless, the hadith is substantiated by an independent, shorter chain found in Malik’s al-Muwattaʾ, 1/146.
رُوِيَ عَنِ الرِّبَاطِيِّ، قَالَ: جِئْتُ إِلَى أَحْمَدَ بنِ حَنْبَلٍ، فَجَعَلَ لاَ يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ إِلَيَّ، فقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ، إِنَّهُ يُكْتَبُ عَنِّيَ الحَدِيْثُ بِخُرَاسَانَ، فَإِنْ عَامَلْتَنِي بِهَذَا، رَمَوا بِحَدِيْثِي. فَقَالَ: يَا أَحْمَدُ، هَلْ بُدٌّ أَنْ يُقَالَ يَوْمَ القِيَامَةِ: أَيْنَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ طَاهِرٍ وَأَتْبَاعُهُ، فَانْظُرْ أَيْنَ تَكُوْنُ مِنْهُ؟! قُلْتُ: إِنَّمَا وَلاَّنِي أَمرَ الرِّبَاطِ، فَجَعَلَ يُرَدِّدُ قَوْلَهُ عَلَيَّ (١) . تُوُفِّيَ الرِّبَاطِيُّ: سَنَةَ خَمْسٍ وَأَرْبَعِيْنَ وَمائَتَيْنِ. وَقِيْلَ: سَنَةَ ثَلاَثٍ وَأَرْبَعِيْنَ. أَخْبَرْنَا ابْنُ عَسَاكِرَ، أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحِيْمِ بنُ أَبِي سَعْدٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيْدُ بنُ الحُسَيْنِ، أَخْبَرَنَا الفَضْلُ بنُ المُحِبِّ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الحُسَيْنِ الخَفَّافُ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ إِسْحَاقَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ سَعِيْدٍ الرِّبَاطِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مَحْبُوْبُ بنُ الحَسَنِ، حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ مَسْرُوْقٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ: (فُرِضَتْ صَلاَةُ الحَضَرِ وَالسَّفَرِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ (٢) ، فَلَمَّا أَقَامَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ بِالمَدِيْنَةِ، زِيْدَ فِي صَلاَةِ الحَضَرِ رَكْعَتَانِ رَكْعَتَانِ، وَتُرِكَتْ صَلاَةُ الفَجْرِ لِطُوْلِ القِرَاءةِ، وَالمَغْرِبُ لأَنَّهَا وِتْرُ النَّهَارِ) (٣) .
(١) " تاريخ بغداد " ٤ / ١٦٦، وقال الخطيب: كان ثقة فاضلا فهما عالما. وفيه عن ابن سعيد، قال: سمعت عبد الرحمن بن يوسف يقول في [الرباطي] : كان ثقة ثقة. (٢) في الأصل: ركعتان ركعتان. (٣) وأخرجه ابن خزيمة (٣٠٥) من طريقين عن محبوب بن الحسن بهذا الإسناد، وأخرجه ابن حبان (٥٤٤) من طريق الحسين بن محمد بن أبي معشر، عن عبد الله بن صالح، عن محبوب بن الحسن، ومحبوب بن الحسن - واسمه محمد ومحبوب لقب به - قال الحافظ في " التقريب ": صدوق فيه لين، وقال ابن خزيمة: هذا حديث غريب لم يسنده أحد أعلمه غير محبوب بن الحسن، رواه أصحاب داود، فقالوا: عن الشعبي، عن عائشة خلا محبوب بن الحسن. قلت: والرواية المنقطعة عند أحمد ٦ / ٢٤١ و٢٦٥ من طريقين، عن داود، لكن ثبت الحديث من طريق آخر بأخصر مما هنا، فقد أخرجه مالك في " الموطأ " ١ / ١٤٦، ومن =

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