Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

And ʿAbd Allāh ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Tabbān reported that Ibn ʿAbdūs spent fourteen years performing the dawn prayer with the same ablution he had made for the night prayer, and he was the very picture of humility. ⦗1⦘

During a time of drought he distributed one hundred dinars from the yield of his estate.

It is further related that a man once came to him and asked, “What is your view concerning faith?”

“I am a believer,” he replied.

“In the sight of Allah as well?” the man pressed.

He answered, “As for the sight of Allah, I cannot make so definitive a claim for myself, for I do not know with what He will seal my life.”

The man spat in his face, whereupon he was struck blind on the spot. ⦗2⦘

He died not long after the year 260 AH.

47 – Aḥmad ibn Bakr, Abū Saʿīd al-Bālisi

The hadith transmitter and teacher Abū Saʿīd al-Bālisi ⦗3⦘—he is also called Aḥmad ibn Bakruwayh—narrated from Zayd ibn Ḥubāb, Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab al-Qarqasānī, Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Qaṣrī, Ḥajjāj al-Aʿwar, and others.

Those who transmitted from him include Muṭayyan, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Asfarāyinī, and Abū Isḥāq ibn Abī Thābit.

A single hadith of his is regarded as objectionable.

Ibn ʿAdī said: “Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn narrated to us; Aḥmad narrated to us; …”

(1) Same source, 1/361. After the word ’isha (night prayer) it adds: “the last one, while occupied with the study of knowledge; he then spent a further fourteen years devoted to qiyam al-layl (standing in prayer at night), tahajjud, and the recitation of the Quran.” (2) See the same source, 1/362-363; the additional material is taken from there. (*) Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 1/86; Lisan al-Mizan, 1/140-141. (3) al-Balsi: an attribution to Bals, a well-known town situated between Raqqa and Khab (al-Lubab).
وَعَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بنِ إِسْحَاقَ بنِ التَّبَّانِ، أَنَّ ابْنَ عَبْدُوْسٍ أَقَامَ أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً يُصَلِّي الصُّبْحَ بِوُضُوءِ العِشَاءِ، وَكَانَ عَلَى غَايَةٍ مِنَ التَّوَاضُعِ (١) . وَقَدْ فَرَّقَ مائَةَ دِيْنَارٍ مِنْ غَلَّةِ ضَيْعَتِهِ فِي القَحْطِ. وَقِيْلَ: أَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ، فَقَالَ: مَا تَقُوْلُ فِي الإِيْمَانِ؟ قَالَ: أَنَا مُؤْمِنٌ. فَقَالَ: عِنْدَ اللهِ؟ قَالَ: أَمَّا عِنْدَ اللهِ فَلاَ أَقْطَعُ لِنفسِي بِذَلِكَ، لأَنِّي لاَ أَدْرِي بِمَ يَخْتِمُ لِي. فَبَصَقَ الرَّجُلُ فِي وَجْهِهِ، فَعَمِيَ مِنْ وَقْتِهِ الرَّجُلُ (٢) . تُوُفِّيَ قَرِيْباً: مِنْ سَنَةِ سِتِّيْنَ وَمائَتَيْنِ. ٤٧ - أَحْمَدُ بنُ بَكْرٍ أَبُو سَعِيْدٍ البَالِسِيُّ * المُحَدِّثُ، المُفِيْدُ، أَبُو سَعِيْدٍ البَالِسِيُّ (٣) ، وَيُقَالُ لَهُ: أَحْمَدُ بنُ بَكْرُوْيَهْ. حَدَّثَ عَنْ: زَيْدِ بنِ الحُبَابِ، وَمُحَمَّدِ بنِ مُصْعَبٍ القَرْقَسَانِيِّ، وَخَالِدِ بنِ يَزِيْدَ القَسْرِيِّ، وَحَجَّاجٍ الأَعْوَرِ، وَجَمَاعَةٍ. رَوَى عَنْهُ: مُطَيَّنٌ، وَيَحْيَى بنُ صَاعِدٍ، وَعَبْدُ المَلِكِ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الأَسْفَرَايينِيُّ، وَأَبُو إِسْحَاقَ بنُ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ. لَهُ حَدِيْثٌ مُنْكَرٌ. قَالَ ابْنُ عَدِيٍّ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ حَمْدُوْنَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، حَدَّثَنَا
(١) المصدر السابق:: ١ / ٣٦١. وزاد بعد كلمة " العشاء " قوله: " الآخرة، مشتغلا بدراسة العلم، وأقام أربع عشرة سنة غيرها مستغلا بقيام الليل والتهجد فيه، وتلاوة القرآن ". (٢) انظر: المصدر السابق: ١ / ٣٦٢ - ٣٦٣. والزيادة منه. (*) ميزان الاعتدال: ١ / ٨٦، لسان الميزان: ١ / ١٤٠ - ١٤١. (٣) البالسي: نسبة إلى بالس، مدينة مشهورة بين الرقة وخاب. (اللباب) .

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