and Muḥammad ibn al-Fayḍ said, “He remained judge in Damascus until he died in 264 AH.
After him the judiciary was taken up by Judge Abū Khāzim (1) ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (2).”
I say: His brother is Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUlayyah (3), the Jahmite theologian with whom Imām al-Shāfiʿī debated—may Allah pardon us.
107 – Ṣāʿiqah, Abū Yaḥyā Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm * (B, D, T, S)
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and exacting scholar Abū Yaḥyā Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Zuhayr al-ʿAdawī, a client of the ʿUmarīs, of Persian origin and later a resident of Baghdad, was nicknamed Ṣāʿiqah (“the Thunderbolt”).
He heard ḥadith from Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Shabābah ibn Sawwār, Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī, Rūḥ ibn ʿUbadah, Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, Muʿallā ibn Manṣūr, Abū al-Naḍr, and others of their rank.
Among those who transmitted from him are al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, and Zakariyyā Khayyāṭ.
(1) Qudat Dimashq records the name with an undotted ḥ (a scribal error). It also notes that Ibn Hibban lists him in al-Thiqat and comments: “He reports rare traditions.” Muhammad b. Jaʿfar b. Milas adds: “Judge Muhammad b. Ismaʿil b. ʿAliyah, trustworthy and approved, narrated to us.” Judge ʿAbd al-Hamid b. ʿAbd al-ʿAziz is profiled in Shadharat al-Dhahab 2/210, which relates that when death approached he would say, “My Lord, from the bench to the grave,” and then weep.
(2) Qudat Dimashq, p. 20; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 9/56. Al-Daraqutni judges him sound (“no harm in him”); Muslimah calls him reliable; al-Mustamli says his transmission was upright.
(3) He is also listed in: al-Fihrist, p. 283; Tarikh Baghdad 6/20, 23; Mizan al-Iʿtidal 1/20; Lisan al-Mizan 1/34–35.
(*) Further references: al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 8/9; Tarikh Baghdad 2/363–364; Tabaqat al-Hanabilah 1/305–306; Tahdhib al-Kamal, col. 1233; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 3/227/1; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 2/553–554; al-ʿIbar 2/10; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 3/245; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 9/311–312; al-Nujum al-Zahira 3/24; Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 247; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 349; Shadharat al-Dhahab 2/130–131.