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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Manṣūr ibn Ismāʿīl, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Tamīmī al-Shāfiʿī
The erudite scholar and jurist of Egypt, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Tamīmī al-Shāfiʿī, the blind poet.

Ibn Khallikān (1) said: “He authored several works on the school and his poetry was widely circulated. Among his lines are:
I have a stratagem for the talebearer, / but none for the inveterate liar.
Whoever fabricates the words he speaks, / my stratagem with him is long indeed.”

Al-Qudāʿī stated: “His family came from Raʾs ʿAyn. He was accomplished in every science and an outstanding poet; in his era there was none like him. He died in 306 AH.”

Ibn Yūnus remarked: “Intelligent and skillful, he composed abridgments in jurisprudence. He was a poet with biting satire, inclined toward Shīʿism, and had been a soldier before losing his sight.”

Abū Isḥāq (2) said: “He left writings on the Shāfiʿī school, having studied under the companions of al-Shāfiʿī and their students.” He then added, “He died before 320 AH.”

I say: Rather, it was 306 AH, as we have already indicated.

(*) Muʿjam al-Shuʿarāʾ, p. 280; Ṭabaqāt al-ʿAbbādī, p. 64; Ṭabaqāt al-Shīrāzī, pp. 107–108; al-Muntazam, 6:152; Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ, 19:185–190; Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, 5:289–292; Mirʾāt al-Jinān, 2:248–249; Nukat al-Humyān, pp. 297–298; Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah by al-Subkī, 3:478–483; Ṭabaqāt al-Isnawī, 1:299–301; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah, 11:130; Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 2:249–250; Ḥusn al-Muḥāḍara, 1:400; Ṭabaqāt Ibn Hidayat Allāh, pp. 42–43. (1) See also Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, 5:289–290; the two verses are quoted in Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ, 19:186, and in Nukat al-Humyān, p. 298. (2) Al-Shīrāzī notes this in his Ṭabaqāt, p. 107.

١٤١ - مَنْصُوْرُ بنُ إِسْمَاعِيْلَ أَبُو الحَسَنِ التَّمِيْمِيُّ الشَّافِعِيُّ * العَلاَّمَةُ، فَقِيْهُ مِصْر، أَبُو الحَسَنِ التَّمِيْمِيُّ الشَّافِعِيُّ الضَّرِيْرُ الشَّاعِر. قَالَ ابْنُ خَلِّكَانَ (١) :لَهُ مُصَنَّفَاتٌ فِي المَذْهَب، وَشعرٌ سَائِر، وَهَذَا لَهُ: لِي حِيْلَةٌ فِيْمَنْ يَنُمُّ ... وَلَيْسَ فِي الكَذَّابِ حِيْلَة مَنْ كَانَ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَقُو ... لُ فَحِيْلَتِي فِيْهِ طَوِيْلَة قَالَ القُضَاعِي: أَصلُه مِنْ رَأْس عَيْن، وَكَانَ متصرِّفاً فِي كُلِّ عِلم، شَاعِراً مُجَوِّداً، لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي زَمَانِهِ مثلُه، تُوُفِّيَ سَنَةَ سِتٍّ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ. وَقَالَ ابْنُ يُوْنُسَ: كَانَ فَهِماً، حَاذِقاً، صَنَّفَ مُخْتَصَرَاتٍ فِي الفِقْه، وَكَانَ شَاعِراً خَبِيْثَ الهَجْو، يتشيَّع، وَكَانَ جُنْدِيّاً، ثُمَّ عَمِي. وَقَالَ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ (٢) :لَهُ مُصَنَّفَاتٌ فِي المَذْهَب، أَخَذَ عَنْ أَصْحَابِ الشَّافِعِيّ، وَأَصْحَابِ أَصْحَابِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ: مَاتَ قَبْلَ العِشْرِيْنَ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ. قُلْتُ: بَلْ سَنَة سِتٍّ وَثَلاَثِ مائَةٍ كَمَا قَدَّمنَا.

(*) معجم الشعراء: ٢٨٠، طبقات العبادي: ٦٤، طبقات الشيرازي: ١٠٨ ١٠٧، المنتظم: ٦ / ١٥٢، معجم الأدباء: ١٩ / ١٩٠ ١٨٥، وفيات الأعيان: ٥ / ٢٩٢ ٢٨٩، مرآة الجنان: ٢ / ٢٤٩ ٢٤٨، نكت الهميان: ٢٩٨ ٢٩٧، طبقات الشافعية للسبكي: ٣ / ٤٨٣ ٤٧٨، طبقات الاسنوي: ١ / ٣٠١ ٢٩٩، البداية والنهاية: ١١ / ١٣٠، شذرات الذهب: ٢ / ٢٥٠ ٢٤٩، حسن المحاضرة: ١ / ٤٠٠، طبقات ابن هداية الله: ٤٣ ٤٢. (١) في " وفيات الأعيان " ٥ / ٢٩٠ ٢٨٩، والبيتان في " معجم الأدباء " ١٩ / ١٨٦، و" نكت الهميان " ص ٢٩٨. (٢) الشيرازي في " طبقاته " ص ١٠٧.