Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (13/262)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Ismaʿil ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman (1) informed us in the year 692 AH; he said: Muhammad ibn Khalaf al-Hanbali informed us in the year 616 AH; he said: Abu Tahir al-Silafi informed us; he said: Muhammad and Ahmad, the two sons of ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad, informed us; they said:

ʿAli ibn Muhammad al-Faradi informed us; Abu ʿAmr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hakim related to us; Abu Hatim al-Razi related to us; Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah related to us; Humayd told me, from Anas ibn Malik, who said:

Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) began the recitation of Surah al-Baqara on the day of Eid al-Fitr—or it may have been Eid al-Adha. I said, “He will recite ten verses.” When he went beyond ten, we said, “He will recite a hundred verses,” until he completed the whole surah, and I saw the senior Companions of Muhammad ﷺ swaying (from the length of the standing).

This is a sound, singular hadith.

Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Munadi, and others, said: The hadith master Abu Hatim died in Shaʿban of the year 277 AH.

It was also said that he lived for eighty-three years.

Abu Muhammad al-Iyadi the poet composed a lengthy elegy for Abu Hatim, transmitted from him by Ibn Abi Hatim. It opens with the lines:

O my soul, what ails you? Do not despair;
O my eyes, what ails you? Do not shed tears.
Have you not heard that the light of knowledge was eclipsed
in Shaʿban’s course, leaving Madinah bereft? (2)

= Its transmitters are all trustworthy. On the same subject there is also a report from Abu Hurayrah recorded by Malik, 2/898; al-Bukhari, 11/441; Muslim, no. 2652; Abu Dawud, no. 4701; and al-Tirmidhi, no. 2135; another report from Umar preserved by Abu Dawud, no. 4702; a report from Jundub b. Abd Allah cited by Abu Ya‘la, Ahmad, and al-Tabarani—al-Haythami remarks in his Majmaʿ, 7/191, that their transmitters are those used in the Sahihayn—and a report from Abu Saʿid al-Khudri related by Abu Ya‘la and al-Bazzar, about which al-Haythami likewise says: “all of their transmitters are the transmitters of the Sahih.” (1) Al-Dhahabi gives him a biographical entry in his Mashayikhah, MS Kh Q: 36. (2) The base manuscript reads “al-ʿilm”; the emendation follows al-Jarh, which has “li-kusuf” and “haqqan” in place of “muhaqqan.”

أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيْلُ بنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ (١) سَنَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَتِسْعِيْنَ وَسِتِّ مائَة، أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ خَلَفٍ الحَنْبَلِيُّ سَنَةَ سِتَّ عَشْرَةَ وَسِتِّ مائَة، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ السِّلَفِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ وَأَحْمَدُ؛ ابْنَا عَبْدِ اللهِ بنِ أَحْمَدَ، قَالاَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الفَرَضِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَمْرٍو أَحْمَدُ بنُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ حَكِيْمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَاتِمٍ الرَّازِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ، حَدَّثَنِي حُمَيْدٌ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: افتَتَحَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ﵁ (البَقَرَةَ) ، فِي يَوْمِ عِيْدِ فِطْرٍ أَوِ أَضْحَى، فَقُلْتُ: يَقْرَأُ عَشْرَ آيَاتٍ، فَلَمَّا جَاوَزَ العَشْرَ، قُلْنَا: يَقْرَأُ مائَةَ آيَةٍ، حَتَّى قَرَأَهَا، فرَأَيْتُ أَشْيَاخَ أَصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ يَمِيلُوْنَ. هَذَا حَدِيْثٌ صَحِيْحٌ غَرِيْبٌ. قَالَ أَبُو الحُسَيْنِ بنُ المُنَادِي، وَغَيْرُهُ: مَاتَ الحَافِظُ أَبُو حَاتِمٍ: فِي شَعْبَانَ، سَنَةَ سَبْعٍ وَسَبْعِيْنَ وَمائَتَيْنِ. وَقِيْلَ: عَاشَ ثَلاَثاً وَثَمَانِيْنَ سَنَةً. وَلأَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الإِيَادِي الشَّاعِرُ مَرْثِيَّةٌ طَوِيْلَةٌ فِي أَبِي حَاتِمٍ، رَوَاهَا عَنْهُ ابْنُ أَبِي حَاتِمٍ، أَوَّلُهَا: أَنَفْسِي مَالَكِ لاَ تَجْزَعِيْنَا ... وَعَيْنِيَ مَالَكِ لاَ تَدْمَعِيْنَا أَلَمْ تَسْمَعِي بِكُسُوْفِ العُلُو ... مِ مِنْ شَهْرِ شَعْبَانَ مُحقاً مَدِيْنَا (٢)

= رجاله ثقات. وفي الباب عن أبي هريرة عند مالك ٢ / ٨٩٨، والبخاري ١١ / ٤٤١، ومسلم (٢٦٥٢) وأبي داود (٤٧٠١) والترمذي (٢١٣٥) وعن عمر عند أبي داود (٤٧٠٢) وعن جندب بن عبد الله عند أبي يعلى وأحمد والطبراني، قال الهيثمي في " المجمع " ٧ / ١٩١: ورجالهم رجال الصحيح وعن أبي سعيد الخدري عند أبي يعلى والبزار، وقال الهيثمي: ورجالهما رجال الصحيح. (١) ترجمه الذهبي في " مشيخته ": خ ق: ٣٦. (٢) في الأصل: " العلم "، والتصويب من " الجرح "، وفيه: " لكسوف "، و: " حقا " بدل: " محقا ".