—of the ʿUthmānī codex.
I have dealt with the whole affair at length in Tabaqāt al-Qurrāʾ ⦗1⦘.
Abū Shāma observed: “Showing leniency toward Ibn Shanbūdh would have been preferable; taking him into custody and speaking to him sternly was punishment enough.”
True, he was not correct in the position he adopted, yet his error in that single incident does not annul the honour owed to a man of the Qur’an and of learning.
I say: He died in Ṣafar of the year 328 AH, when he was in his eighties—or had even passed them.
114 – ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd ibn Yaʿqūb al-Kindī
The traditionist, ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Qāsim al-Kindī al-Ḥimṣī, judge of Ḥimṣ.
He heard hadith from Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf, Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Bahrānī, ʿImrān ibn Bakkār, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Khanājir al-Ṭarābulusī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ḥūṭī, and he did not hesitate to narrate from Ibn Jawṣā ⦗2⦘ and others of similar rank.
Those who transmitted from him include Jumah ibn al-Qāsim, Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Simsār, the judge Abū Bakr al-Abharī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd al-Kindī, the judge ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī, and many others.