Murrah, from al-Qāsim, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “The makers of these images will be punished with a torment that no other creature will suffer; it will be said to them, ‘Bring to life what you have fashioned.’” (1)
Ibn al-Munādī said: Ibn Ṣadaqa reached the utmost limits of accuracy and skill.
44 – Qunbul, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makhzūmī*
A renowned imam among the Qur’an reciters.
He is Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makhzūmī, their client, of Meccan origin.
He lived ninety-six years.
He recited to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qawwās and others.
His students included Ibn Shanabūdh, Ibn Mujāhid, Ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and Ibn Shawdhab al-Wāsiṭī.
It is said that he became very old and his faculties declined.
I have treated his biography at length in Tabaqāt al-Qurrāʾ (2).
He died in 291 AH.
(1) This hadith is transmitted through several chains from Nafiʿ, from al-Qasim, from ʿAʾisha, and is recorded by: al-Bukhari 9/216; 10/327, 330; 13/446; Muslim 2106 (96); Ibn Majah 2151; al-Nasaʾi 8/215; and Ahmad 6/70, 80, 223. Muslim’s wording is: “The makers of these images will be punished and it will be said to them: ‘Give life to what you created.’” He then added: “Angels do not enter a house that contains images.”
(*) Biographical sources: Yaqut, Muʿjam al-udabaʾ 17/17-18; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-aʿyan 3/42; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar 2/89; idem, Tabaqat al-qurraʾ 1/186-187; idem, Duwal al-Islam 1/176; al-Safadi, al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat 3/226-227; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya 11/99; al-Muhibbi, al-Qad al-thamin 2/109-110; Ibn al-Jazari, Tabaqat al-qurraʾ 2/165-166; idem, al-Nashr fi al-qiraʾat al-ʿashr 1/120-121; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-dhahab 2/208. He was called Qunbul because he frequently used a medicinal preparation known as al-qunbil.
(2) 1/186-187.