Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (12/267)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Al-Ismaʿili narrated: ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyār al-Farhayāni informed us, saying:
“I heard them relate that when ʿAli ibn al-Madini arrived in Baghdad and the people flocked to him, they later asked him, after the gathering dispersed, ‘Whom did you find to be the shrewdest of the attendees?’ He answered, ‘This young man al-Mukharrimi.’

Al-Ismaʿili also said: Al-Farhayāni related to us: ‘I heard al-Mukharrimi recount:
“One day Abu Khaythama asked, ‘How many reports do you preserve that Ibn Jurayj transmits from his father?’ Yahya ibn Maʿin was present but did not venture a single reply, whereas I stepped forward and supplied the answers.” Al-Farhayāni added, “We used to describe al-Mukharrimi as exceptionally knowledgeable.”

We then mentioned this to a hadith scholar named ʿUmar ibn Ismaʿil al-Abiywardi (1). He said, “Kaylaja (2) provided me with several chapters. The hadith material there is rare, and I will list for you some of those chapters so that you may question al-Mukharrimi about them.” He cited, for example, the issue of someone who manages to join the witr prayer: some authorities say he should recite the tashahhud, while others say he should not.

When we went to al-Mukharrimi and asked him, he replied, “This is not your field—what need have you of it?” He thought of us as people who pursued the Musnad, so we said, “Tell us what you have on the point.” Right there on the spot he related six hadiths to us.

We returned to the man who had directed us and said, “He dictated six hadiths on the matter.” He exclaimed, “That is something truly astonishing!” (3)

ʿAbd al-Bāqi ibn Qāniʿ said: “He died in 254 AH.”
Ibn Ḥibbān said: “He died in 260 AH, or a little before or after that.”

Ahmad ibn Isḥaq informed us; Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz informed us

= Al-Tahdhib, vol. 9, p. 273. Al-Khatib reports in his Tarikh, vol. 5, p. 423: “He was among the most reliable preservers of tradition and the most learned in hadith.” (1) In Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 5, p. 424, the name is erroneously written as “Yabrud.” (2) This refers to the hadith master Muhammad b. Salih al-Baghdadi; his biography will appear below, p. 524. (3) Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 5, p. 424.

الإِسْمَاعِيْلِيُّ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ سَيَّارٍ الفَرْهَيَانِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُهُم يَقُوْلُوْنَ: قَدِمَ عَلِيُّ بنُ المَدِيْنِيِّ بَغْدَادَ، وَاجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْهِ النَّاسُ، فَلَمَّا تَفَرَّقُوا، قِيْلَ لَهُ: مَنْ وَجَدْتَ أَكيَسَ القَوْمِ؟ قَالَ: هَذَا الغُلاَمُ المُخَرِّمِيُّ. الإِسْمَاعِيْلِيُّ: حَدَّثَنَا الفَرْهَيَانِيُّ: سَمِعْتُ المُخَرِّمِيَّ يَقُوْلُ: ذَكَرَ أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ يَوْماً، فَقَالَ: كَمْ تَحْفَظُونَ لاِبْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ أَبِيْهِ، وَكَانَ يَحْيَى بنُ مَعِيْنٍ ثَمَّةَ، فَمَا أَجَابَ البَتَّةَ فِي وَاحِدٍ، وَانْدَفَعتُ أَنَا، فَقُلْتُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ الفَرْهَيَانِيُّ: كُنَّا نَصِفُ المُخَرِّمِيَّ بِالمَعْرِفَةِ. فَذَكَرنَاهُ لِصَاحِبِ حَدِيْثٍ، يُقَالُ لَهُ: عُمَرُ بنُ إِسْمَاعِيْلَ الأَبِيْوَرْدِيُّ (١) ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ كَيْلَجَةَ (٢) أَفَادَنِي أَبْوَاباً. وَقَالَ: الحَدِيْثُ فَيهَا عَزِيْزٌ، وَأَنَا أَذكُرُ لَكُم بَعْضَ تِلْكَ الأَبْوَابِ، حَتَّى تَسْأَلُوا عَنْهَا المُخَرِّمِيَّ. فَذَكَرَ الرَّجُلَ يُدْرِكُ الوتْرَ مَنْ قَالَ: يَتَشَهَّدُ، وَمَنْ قَالَ: لاَ يَتَشَهَّدُ؟ فَلَمَّا أَتَينَاهُ، سَأَلنَاهُ، فَقَالَ: لَيْسَ ذَا مِنْ صِنَاعَتِكُمْ، مَا حَاجَتُكُمْ إِلَيْهِ؟ وَذَاكَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَرَانَا نَتَّبَّعُ (المُسْنَدَ) ، فَقُلْنَا: تُحَدِّثُنَا بِمَا عِنْدَكَ فِيْهِ. فَحَدَّثَنَا عَلَى المَكَانِ بِسِتَّةِ أَحَادِيْثَ. فَرَجَعْنَا إِلَى الَّذِي قَالَ لَنَا، فَقُلْنَا: أَملَى عَلَيْنَا فِيْهِ سِتَّةَ أَحَادِيْثَ. فَقَالَ: ذَا هَوْلٌ مِنَ الأَهوَالِ (٣) . قَالَ عَبْدُ البَاقِي بنُ قَانعٍ: مَاتَ سَنَةَ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِيْنَ وَمائَتَيْنِ. وَقَالَ ابْنُ حِبَّانَ: مَاتَ سَنَةَ سِتِّيْنَ وَمائَتَيْنِ، أَوْ قَبْلَهَا بِقَلِيْلٍ، أَوْ بَعْدَهَا. أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ إِسْحَاقَ، أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ هِبَةِ اللهِ بنِ عَبْدِ العَزِيْزِ،

= التهذيب " ٩ / ٢٧٣. وقال الخطيب في " تاريخه " ٥ / ٤٢٣: كان من أحفظ الناس للاثر، وأعلمهم بالحديث. (١) تحرف في " تاريخ بغداد " ٥ / ٤٢٤ إلى " يبرود ". (٢) هو الامام الحافظ محمد بن صالح البغدادي، وسترد ترجمته في الصفحة: ٥٢٤. (٣) " تاريخ بغداد " ٥ / ٤٢٤.