Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

I add: he lived for seventy years, and he died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 268 AH.

235 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥammād ibn Ayyūb al-Āmulī * (kh)

The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, accomplished scholar, and reliable authority; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Āmulī. Āmul Jayḥūn is a small town belonging to the districts of Marw. It is also called Amaw, and for that reason he was nicknamed al-Amawī—with two fatḥahs.

He heard ḥadith from al-Qaʿnabī, Abū al-Yamān, Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Yaḥyā al-Wuḥāẓī, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, and Abū al-Jamāhir al-Kafrasūsī.

Among those who transmitted from him—so it is said—was al-Bukhārī, for he once stated: “ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us.” In my judgment, however, that ʿAbd Allāh is Ibn Abī al-Khuwārazmī, for al-Bukhārī stayed with him in Khwārazm, examined his books, and took a number of traditions from him.

Those who definitely narrated from al-Āmulī include ʿUmar ibn Bujayr, Ibrāhīm ibn Khuzaym ⦗1⦘, al-Haytham ibn Kulayb, ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Ḥārithī, and the judge al-Qāḍī al-Maḥāmilī.

He died in Rajab of the year 273 AH. It has also been said that he died in 269 AH, in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir.

= Ibn Hibban, in al-Thiqat, says: “He was among the great collectors of hadith who travelled widely for it, distinguished by alertness, precision, defence of the school, and strictness toward innovators.” Ibn Hajar adds: “He was one of those who introduced Shafi‘i fiqh to Khurasan, having studied under al-Rabi‘ and others.” He also composed Futuh Khurasan (The Conquests of Khurasan). (*) Sources: al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, 9/444–445; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 675; Ibn Hajar, Tazhib al-Tahdhib, 2/139/1; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 5/190-191; Khulasa Tazhib al-Kamal, p. 195. (1) Pronounced with damma on the kha and fatha on the zay; he is al-Shashi, the teacher of Abd b. Humayd. See al-Mushtabih, 1/263.
قُلْتُ: عَاشَ سَبْعِيْنَ سَنَةً. مَاتَ: فِي رَبِيْعٍ الآخِرِ، سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ وَسِتِّيْنَ وَمائَتَيْنِ. ٢٣٥ - عَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ حَمَّادِ بنِ أَيُّوْبَ الآمُلِيُّ * (خَ) الإِمَامُ، الحَافِظُ، البَارع، الثِّقَة، أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الآمُلِيّ؛ آمل جَيْحُون، وَهِيَ بليدَة مِنْ أَعْمَال مَرْو. وَيُقَالُ: لَهَا أَمَوْ، وَمِنْ ثَمَّ قِيْلَ لَهُ: الأَمَوِيّ - بِفتْحَتَيْنِ -. سَمِعَ: القَعْنَبِيّ، وَأَبَا اليَمَان، وَسُلَيْمَان بن حَرْبٍ، وَسَعِيْد بن أَبِي مَرْيَمَ، وَيَحْيَى الوُحَاظِيّ، وَيَحْيَى بن مَعِيْنٍ، وَأَبَا الجُمَاهَر الكَفْرَسُوْسِيّ. وَعَنْهُ: البُخَارِيُّ - فِيْمَا قِيْلَ - فَقَدْ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَالَّذِي عِنْدِي أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللهِ هَذَا هُوَ ابْنُ أَبِي الخُوَارِزْمِي، فَإِنَّ البُخَارِيّ نَزَل عِنْدَهُ بخُوَارِزْم، وَنَظَرَ فِي كُتُبِه، وَعلق عَنْهُ أَشْيَاء. وَحَدَّثَ عَنِ الآمُلِيّ: عُمَر بن بُجَيْر، وَإِبْرَاهِيْم بن خُزَيْم (١) ، وَالهَيْثَم بن كُلَيْبٍ، وَعَبْد اللهِ مُحَمَّد بن يَعْقُوْبَ الحَارِثِيّ، وَالقَاضِي المَحَامِلِيّ. مَاتَ: فِي رَجَبٍ، سَنَةَ ثَلاَثٍ وَسَبْعِيْنَ وَمائَتَيْنِ. وَقِيْلَ: بَلْ مَاتَ سَنَةَ تِسْعٍ وَسِتِّيْنَ، فِي رَبِيْعٍ الآخِرِ.
= حبان في الثقات: كان من الجماعين للحديث والرحالين فيه مع التيقظ والإتقان والذب عن المذهب، والتضييق على أهل البدع. وقال ابن حجر: وهو أحد من أدخل فقه الشافعي على خراسان أخذه عن الربيع وغيره. وله كتاب " فتوح خراسان ". (*) تاريخ بغداد ٩ / ٤٤٤، ٤٤٥، تهذيب الكمال: ٦٧٥، تذهيب التهذيب ٢ / ١٣٩ / ١، تهذيب التهذيب ٥ / ١٩٠، ١٩١، خلاصة تذهيب الكمال: ١٩٥. (١) بضم الخاء المعجمة، وفتح الزاي المعجمة أيضا، وهو الشاشي صاحب عبد بن حميد. انظر " المشتبه " ١ / ٢٦٣.

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