Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (12/310)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Abu Jaʿfar said, “Hamadhān has never produced anyone more learned in jurisprudence than al-Marrār.”

The ḥāfiẓ Abū Shujāʿ Shirawayh stated: “Abū Ḥātim stayed with al-Marrār and wrote down traditions from him. Al-Marrār died long ago, yet he was a person of great stature. A large group from Nahāwand posed numerous legal questions to him; the answers were recorded, and whoever studies them will recognize al-Marrār’s standing in wide-ranging knowledge, sound memorization, precision, and devotion.”

ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn al-Duḥaymī (1) said: “I heard al-Marrār say, ‘O Allah, grant me martyrdom,’ while passing his hand across his throat.”

It is related that when the conflict between al-Muʿtazz and al-Mustaʿīn flared up, two commanders—Jabbākh and Jughlān—were governing Hamadhān on behalf of al-Muʿtazz. The townspeople consulted al-Marrār and al-Jurjānī about fighting them. Both scholars advised the people to remain in their homes. When the troops of the two commanders raided the house of Salama ibn Sahl and others, and shot a man with an arrow, the scholars then issued a legal ruling permitting combat. Al-Marrār girded on his sword and went out with the townsfolk; many on both sides were killed. Afterwards Mufliḥ sought al-Marrār, so he took refuge with the people of Qumm.

The ḥadith scholar Ibrāhīm ibn Masʿūd fled with him. Ibrāhīm joked with the pursuers and made his peace with them, so he was spared; but al-Marrār openly opposed them over their Shiʿite leanings and confronted them, whereupon they seized him and killed him—may Allah have mercy on him.

Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣāliḥ reported that his uncle al-Marrār was killed in 254 AH at the age of 54.

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad al-Tamīmī said: “Al-Marrār was killed that year as a martyr.” And he was

(1) The word is pronounced with a ḍamma on the letter d, a fatḥa on the ḥ, the y is quiescent (bearing two dots beneath), and the word ends with an m and a y: thus, al-Duḥaymi, a nisba derived from Duḥaym, the sobriquet of the judge Abu Saʿid ʿAbd al-Rahman b. Ibrahim al-Qurashi al-Dimashqi, the client of ʿUthman b. ʿAffan. In Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 10/81 the form is mistakenly printed as “al-Burjami.”

وَعَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ: مَا أَخْرَجَتْ هَمَذَانُ أَفْقَهَ مِنَ المَرَّارِ. قَالَ الحَافِظُ أَبُو شجَاعٍ شِيْرَوَيْه: نَزَلَ أَبُو حَاتِمٍ عَلَى المَرَّارِ، وَكَتَبَ عَنْهُ، وَهُوَ قَدِيْمُ المَوْتِ، جَلِيْلُ الخَطَرِ، سأَلَهُ جُمْهُوْرٌ النَّهَاوَنْدِيُّ عَنْ مَسَائِلَ، وَهِيَ مُدَوَّنَةٌ عَنْهُ، مَنْ نظرَ فِيْهَا عَلِمَ مَحَلَّ المرَّارِ مِنَ العِلْمِ الوَاسِعِ، وَالحِفْظِ وَالإِتْقَانِ وَالِديَانَةِ. وَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ أَحْمَدُ بنُ الدُّحَيْمِيِّ (١) : سَمِعْتُ المَرَّارَ يَقُوْلُ: اللَّهُمَّ ارزقنِي الشَّهَادَةَ، وَأَمَرَّ يدَهُ عَلَى حَلْقِهِ. وَقِيْلَ: لَمَّا وَقعتْ فِتْنَةُ المُعْتَزِّ وَالمستعينِ كَانَ عَلَى هَمَذَانَ الأَمِيْرَانِ جَبَّاخٌ وَجُغْلاَنُ مِنْ قِبَلِ المُعْتَزِّ، فَاسْتشَارَ أَهْلُ هَمَذَانَ المَرَّارَ وَالجُرْجَانِيَّ فِي مُحَارَبَتِهِمَا، فَأَمرَاهُم بلُزُوْمِ مَنَازِلِهِم، فَلَمَّا أَغَارَ أَصْحَابُهُمَا عَلَى دَارِ سَلَمَةِ بنِ سَهْلٍ وَغَيْرِهَا، وَرَمَوْا رَجُلاً بِسهمٍ، أَفتيَاهُم فِي الحَرْبِ، وَتَقَلَّدَ المَرَّارُ سيفاً، فَخَرَجَ مَعَهُم، فَقُتِلَ عَدَدٌ كَثِيْرٌ مِنَ الفَرِيْقَيْنِ، ثُمَّ طلبَ مُفْلحٌ المَرَّارَ، فَاعتصمَ بِأَهْلِ قُمّ. وَهَرَبَ مَعَهُ إِبْرَاهِيْمُ بنُ مَسْعُوْدٍ المُحَدِّثُ. فَأَمَّا إِبْرَاهِيْمُ فَهَازلَهُم وَقَاربَهُم فَسَلِمَ، وَأَمَّا المَرَّارُ، فَأَظهرَ مُخَالَفَتَهُم فِي التَّشَيُّعِ، وَكَاشَفَهُم، فَأَوقعُوا بِهِ وَقْتلُوهُ ﵀. وَرَوَى الحُسَيْنُ بنُ صَالِح أَنَّ عَمَّهُ المَرَّارَ قُتِلَ فِي سَنَةِ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِيْنَ وَمائَتَيْنِ، وَلَهُ أَرْبَعٌ وَخمسُوْنَ سَنَةً. قَالَ صَالِحُ بنُ أَحْمَدَ التَّمِيْمِيُّ: قُتِلَ المَرَّارُ فِي السُّنَّةِ شهيداً. وَكَانَ

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