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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

O Time, you have bruised my heart by taking him away;
so who is there that can hurl this grief back upon Time itself?
I shall submit to Allah’s decree and be content,
and I will mend the gap this loss has torn in the family with patience.

Yazīd ibn Muḥammad al-Azdī said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Qurashī narrated to me; I heard ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb say:
“We were in the company of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah when a man began to say to him, ‘O Abū Muḥammad, the hadith: “Woe to the Arabs for an evil that has drawn near” (1).’
Sufyān turned away, but the man kept repeating the request while Sufyān ignored him. When he persisted, Sufyān said to him, ‘Woe to you! How long will you keen for the Arabs from today forward? Woe to the Nabataeans (2) for an evil that has already descended.’ ”

From the higher-chain transmissions (ʿawālī) of ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb I obtained four fascicles: one is with Abū al-Qāsim ibn Ṣaṣrā, and three are with Abū al-Qāsim al-Sibt.

Their brother—the shaykh, the learned scholar and ḥadith transmitter—

96 – Abū Sufyān Muʿāwiyah ibn Ḥarb ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāʾī al-Mawṣilī *
He was born in the year 200 AH, or shortly thereafter.
He heard ḥadith from: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Qabīṣah, Khalād ibn Yaḥyā, and Abū Nuʿaym.

(1) Reported by al-Bukhari, Sahih, 6:274—in the Book of the Prophets (under the verse “They ask you about Dhu l-Qarnayn”), again in the Book of the Signs of Prophethood, and in the Book of Tribulations, chapters “Woe to the Arabs from a near-approaching evil” and “Gog and Magog”; by Muslim, Sahih, no. 2880, Book of Tribulations, chapter on the nearness of trials; by al-Tirmidhi, no. 2188; and, on the authority of Abu Hurayra, by Abu Dawud, no. 4249, with an authentic chain of transmission. (2) The Nabat were a non-Arab people who inhabited the marshlands situated between Upper and Lower Iraq; their name is said to come from their skill in drawing forth what the soil produces. (*) No biographical notice has been located for him.

فَيَا دَهْرُ قَدْ أَوْجَعْتَ قَلْبِي لِفَقْدِهِ ... فَمَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يُعْدِي مُصَاباً عَلَى الدَّهْرِ سَأَسْتَعْمِلُ التَّسْلِيمَ للهِ وَالرِّضَى ... وَأَجْبُرُ ثَلْمَ النَّقْصِ فِي الأَهْلِ بِالصَّبْرِ قَالَ يَزِيْدُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الأَزْدِيُّ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ القُرَشِيُّ، سَمِعْتُ عَلِيَّ بنَ حَرْبٍ يَقُوْلُ: كُنَّا عِنْدَ سُفْيَانَ بنِ عُيَيْنَةَ، فَجَعَلَ رَجُلٌ يَقُوْلُ لَهُ: يَا أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدِيْثُ: (وَيْلٌ لِلْعَرَبِ مِنْ شَرٍّ قَدِ اقْتَرَبَ) (١) . فَأَعرَضَ عَنْهُ، فَجَعَلَ يُكَرِّرُ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِ، وَسُفْيَانُ يُعرِضُ عَنْهُ. فَأَلَحَّ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: وَيْحَكَ! كَمْ تُوَلْوِلُ لِلْعَرَبِ مُنْذُ اليَوْمَ، وَيْلٌ لِلنَّبَطِ (٢) مِنْ شَرٍّ قَدْ هَبَطَ. وَقَعَ لِي مِنْ عَوَالِي عَلِيِّ بنِ حَرْبٍ أَرْبَعَةُ أَجْزَاءٍ: وَاحِدٌ عِنْدَ أَبِي القَاسِمِ بنِ صَصْرَى، وَثَلاَثَةٌ عِنْدَ أَبِي القَاسِمِ السِّبْطِ. أَخُوْهُم: الشَّيْخُ العَالِمُ المُحَدِّثُ، ٩٦ - أَبُو سُفْيَانَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بنُ حَرْبِ بنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الطَّائِيُّ المَوْصِلِيُّ * وُلِدَ: سَنَةَ مائَتَيْنِ، أَوْ بُعَيدَهَا. وَسَمِعَ: عُبَيْدَ اللهِ بنَ مُوْسَى، وَقَبِيْصَةَ، وَخَلاَّدَ بنَ يَحْيَى، وَأَبَا نُعَيْمٍ.

(١) أخرجه من حديث زينب بنت جحش البخاري ٦ / ٢٧٤ في أحاديث الأنبياء: باب قول الله تعالى (ويسألونك عن ذي القرنين) وباب علامات النبوة في الإسلام، وفي الفتن: باب قول النبي ﷺ: ويل للعرب من شر قد اقترب، وباب ياجوج ومأجوج، ومسلم (٢٨٨٠) في الفتن وباب اقتراب الفتن، والترمذي (٢١٨٨) ، وأخرجه من حديث أبي هريرة أبو داود (٤٢٤٩) وإسناده صحيح. (٢) النبط: جيل من العجم ينزلون البطائح بين العراقين، وسموا بذلك لاستنباطهم ما يخرج من الارضين. (*) لم نقف له على ترجمة.