hadith from his two paternal uncles, the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim (1) and aṣ-Ṣāʾin (2). He was a close friend of [Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn] al-Kindī, and he died (3) on Sunday, the second of Rajab; he was buried just in front of the miḥrāb of Masjid al-Qadam (may Allah have mercy on him).
Tāj al-ʿUlā, the genealogist from Ramla (4), a Ḥasanid (5), also passed away. He met in Āmid with [Shaykh Abū al-Khaṭṭāb] Ibn Dihya (6), who claimed descent from Dihya al-Kalbī. [He said to him:] “Indeed, Dihya (7) left no offspring,” whereupon Ibn Dihya accused him of lying in his Mosulī Questions.
Ibn al-Athīr (8) reports in [al-Kāmil]: “In Muḥarram of that same year the following died:
—al-Muhadhdhab (9), the renowned physician ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Habal (10) of Mosul. He had heard hadith and was the most knowledgeable physician of his age. He wrote an excellent medical treatise (11) and was noted for his charity and fine character.
—al-Juzūlī (12), author (13) of the primer entitled ‘al-Qānūn’; his name was Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.”
(1) Al-Hāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir, author of Tarīkh Dimashq, in the obituary entry for 571 AH in the preceding volume.
(2) Al-Ṣā’īn Ibn ʿAsākir in the obituaries for 563 AH.
(3) In the printed edition: “He died on Sunday.”
(4) In the printed edition: “The genealogist al-Kalbī was known as Tāj al-ʿUlā.”
(5) In the printed edition: “al-Kalbī al-Ḥusaynī,” a gross corruption—how can one be both al-Kalbī and al-Ḥusaynī? The correct nisbah for al-Kalbī is al-Ramlī, and for al-Ḥusaynī it is al-Ḥusnī, as al-Dhahabī notes in Tārīkh al-Islām (13/235): “Tāj al-ʿUlā, the noble genealogist al-Ḥusnī al-Ramlī, the Rāfidī who was at Bāmid… and the name of Tāj al-ʿUlā is al-Ashraf b. al-ʿAz b. Hāshim al-ʿAlawī al-Ḥusnī.” He then transmits an extended biography from the well-known Shi‘i Ibn Abī Ṭay’s Tārīkh, who described him as “our shaykh, the learned hāfiẓ, genealogist, preacher, and poet.” At the end of his notice al-Dhahabī comments: “This was nothing but an impudent, audacious lie.”
(6) The entry for Ibn Dihyā al-Kalbī in 633 AH will follow.
(7) In the printed edition: “Dihyā al-Kalbī.”
(8) Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh (9/307), with a variant in the narrative.
(9) The biography of al-Muḥadhdhab Ibn Hubal appears in: al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh (9/307); Tārīkh al-Ḥukamā’ (p. 159); Inbāh al-Ruwāt (2/231); al-Takmila li-Wafayāt al-Naqallā’ (2/266); Mukhtaṣar Ibn al-ʿIbrī (p. 420); Tārīkh al-Islām (13/243); al-ʿIbar (5/36); Nukat al-Humayān (p. 205); al-Nujūm al-Zāhira (6/209); al-Dāris (2/130); and Shadharāt al-Dhahab (7/79).
(10) In al-Uṣūl it appears as “bin Muqbil,” a corruption; we have preserved the reading from its sources, and al-Ṣafdī vocalizes it with a fatḥa on the hā’ and a second bā’ before the lām.
(11) Bashshār notes that this is the book al-Mukhtār fī al-Tibb, printed in Hyderabad in four volumes (1362–1364 AH), and that a valuable manuscript dated 610 AH is preserved in the Graduate Studies Library at the University of Baghdad.
(12) Ibn Khallikān vocalizes it with a ḍamma on the jīm and zāy and a sukūn on the wāw before the lām: the nisbah refers to the Juzūla (also called Kazūla with a kāf), a branch of the Berbers.
(13) The biography of al-Jazūlī appears in Inbāh al-Ruwāt (2/378), Wafayāt al-A‘yān (3/488), Tārīkh al-Islām (13/170), and al-ʿIbar =