Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (13/204)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

He was born in 202 AH; thereafter he travelled widely, collected traditions, authored works, and excelled in this field.

Abu ʿUbayd al-Ājurrī said: I heard him remark, “I was born in the year two hundred and two, I offered the funeral prayer over ʿAffān(1) in the year twenty (220 AH), and I entered Basra while the people were saying, ‘Yesterday ʿUthmān ibn al-Haytham, the muʾadhdhin,(2) passed away.’”

So I attended a single session with Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr and heard hadith from him.

I say: He(3) died in Shaʿbān of the year twenty (220 AH), and ʿUthmān had died one month before him.

He continued, “I followed ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth to his house but did not hear anything from him,(4) and I heard one sitting each from Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān and ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī.(5)”

I further note that in Mecca he heard from al-Qaʿnabī and Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb.

He also received narrations from Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl, and their circle in Basra.

Later, in Kufa, he heard from al-Ḥasan ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Bawrānī, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Yarbūʿī, and a number of others.

He took hadith from Abū Tawbah al-Rabīʿ ibn Nāfiʿ in Aleppo;
from Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Shuʿayb, and several others in Harran;
from Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Rabbih, and many others in Homs;
and from Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ and Hishām ibn

(1) ʿAffan ibn Muslim, a Basran hadith master (hafiz); see the author’s al-Ibar, 1/380. (2) The muezzin of the Great Mosque of Basra; see al-Ibar, 1/380. (3) That is, Abu ʿUmar al-Darir. (4) Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi adds here: “…anything; and I met Khalid ibn Khaddash but did not hear anything from him.” (5) Tarikh Baghdad, 9/56.

وُلِدَ: سَنَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَمائَتَيْنِ، وَرَحَلَ، وَجَمَعَ، وَصَنَّفَ، وَبَرَعَ فِي هَذَا الشَّأْنِ. قَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدٍ الآجُرِّيُّ: سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُوْلُ: وُلِدْتُ سَنَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ، وَصَلَّيْتُ عَلَى عَفَّانَ (١) سَنَةَ عِشْرِيْنَ، وَدَخَلْتُ البَصْرَةَ وَهُم يَقُوْلُوْنَ: أَمْسِ مَاتَ عُثْمَانُ بنُ الهَيْثَمِ المُؤَذِّنُ (٢) . فَسَمِعْتُ مِنْ أَبِي عُمَرَ الضَّرِيْرِ مَجْلِساً وَاحِداً. قُلْتُ: مَاتَ (٣) فِي شَعْبَانَ، مِنْ سَنَةِ عِشْرِيْنَ، وَمَاتَ عُثْمَانُ قَبْلَهُ بِشَهْرٍ. قَالَ: وَتَبِعْتُ عُمَرَ بنَ حَفْصِ بنِ غِيَاثٍ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ، وَلَمْ أَسْمَعْ مِنْهُ (٤) ، وَسَمِعْتُ مِنْ سَعِيْدِ بنِ سُلَيْمَانَ مَجْلِساً وَاحِداً، وَمِنْ عَاصِمِ بنِ عَلِيٍّ مَجْلِساً وَاحِداً (٥) . قُلْتُ: وَسَمِعَ بِمَكَّةَ مِنَ: القَعْنَبِيِّ، وَسُلَيْمَانَ بنِ حَرْبٍ. وَسَمِعَ مِنْ: مُسْلِمِ بنِ إِبْرَاهِيْمَ، وَعَبْدِ اللهِ بنِ رَجَاءٍ، وَأَبِي الوَلِيْدِ الطَّيَالِسِيِّ، وَمُوْسَى بنِ إِسْمَاعِيْلَ، وَطَبَقَتِهِم بِالبَصْرَةِ. ثمَّ سَمِعَ بِالكُوْفَةِ مِنَ: الحَسَنِ بنِ الرَّبِيْعِ البُورَانِيِّ، وَأَحْمَدَ بنِ يُوْنُسَ اليَرْبُوْعِيِّ، وَطَائِفَةٍ. وَسَمِعَ مِنْ: أَبِي تَوْبَةَ الرَّبِيْعِ بنِ نَافِعٍ بِحَلَبَ. وَمِنْ: أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ النُّفَيْلِيِّ، وَأَحْمَدَ بنِ أَبِي شُعَيْبٍ، وَعِدَّةٍ، بِحَرَّانَ. وَمِنْ: حَيْوَةَ بنِ شُرَيْحٍ، وَيَزِيْدَ بنِ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ، وَخَلْقٍ بِحِمْصَ. وَمِنْ: صَفْوَانَ بنِ صَالِحٍ، وَهِشَامِ بنِ

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