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Autograph Diary of an Eleventh-Century Historian of Baghdād–III1

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page 28 note 6 No other obituary found.

page 28 note 7 Possibly, a relative of Abū'l-Qāsim b. Riḍwān, cf. No. 8 above.

page 28 note 8 See also next paragraph.

page 28 note 9 Karīma bint Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Hātim al-Marwazīya, centenarian traditionalist, died in Mekka in 463; see biographical notices in Muntaຓam, VIII, 270; Kāmil, anno 463; Shadharāt, III, 314.

page 29 note 1 See also No. 125.

page 29 note 2 No other obituaries found.

page 29 note 3 cf. No. 18 above.

page 30 note 1 Abū Ya‘lā al-Ḥusain, father of Rūdhrāwarī, Abū Shujā, cf. BSOAS, XVIII, 2, 1956, p. 255,Google Scholar n. 1–2.

page 30 note 2 Ibn ‘ar-Raḥīm, Abd, cf. BSOAS, XVIII, 2, 1956, p. 259,Google Scholar n. 2.

page 30 note 3 Perhaps Abū'l-‘Ala’ Ḥamad b. Naṡr al-Hamadhānī (431–512), biographical notice in Dhail, 1,171.

page 30 note 4 Ref. No. 18.

page 30 note 5 Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Abd Allāh b. Tauba al-‘Ukbarī; cf. biographical notice in Dhail, 1,10, based on this one.

page 30 note 6 Anonymous article in El. See also No. 116.

page 30 note 7 No biographical notice found. This nisba is most likely in reference to the Darb al-Maṭbakh quarter in Baghdād mentioned in Dhail, I, 10, but not in Le Strange, Baghdād (Index), nor in Sam‘ānī, Ansāb.

page 30 note 8 No biographical notice found.

page 30 note 9 Abū'l-Ḥasan ‘Imād ad-dīn ‘Alī b. Muḥammad b. ‘Alī at-Ṭabaristānī, known by the name of al-Kiyā al-Harāsī (450–504; al-Harrāsī, according to Shadharāt, III, 8); see GAL, I, 390, Suppl., I, 674, and Muntaຓam, VIII, 167.

page 30 note 10 Anonymous art. in El, with suppl. by Wensinck in Handwörterbuch des Islam.

page 31 note 1 Ash-Sharīf Abū ‘Alī b. Sukkara, Hāshimite notable; no biographical notice found on him; cf.Muntaຓam, VIII, 190, and Kāmil, anno 447; had for teacher the Ḥanbalite jurisconsult Abū Muḥammad at-Tamīmī (p. 45, n. 1), cf. Dhail, I, 98. See also Nos. 85, 106, 108, 110, 115, 116, 126, and 169.

page 31 note 2 The Ḥājib (cf. BSOAS, XVIII, 2,1956, p. 249, n. 3Google Scholar).

page 31 note 3 Abū Ṭāhir ‘Abd al-Bāqī b. Muḥammad b. ‘Abd Allāh al-Bazzāz, known by the name of Ṣihr Hibat Allāh al-Muqri’ (381–461); biographical notice in Ibn Abī Ya‘lā, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, II, 231–2; see also the notice in Dhail, I, 231, inserted in the biography of his son (p. 31, n. 4); another notice in Ibn al-Jauzī, Manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, 521, where should read ; cf. also Ṣihr ‘Abd Allāh al-Bazzār (sic, in Muntaຓam, VIII, 255) and Ṣihr Hibat Allāh al-Bazzār (sic, Ibid., x, 92). See also No. 71.

page 31 note 4 Abū Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Bāqī, known as Qāḍī'l-Māristān (442–535); biography in Dhail, I, 230–7.

page 31 note 5 See also Nos. 113 and 160.

page 31 note 6 No other obituaries found on him nor on his three sons.

page 32 note 1 cf. Muntaຓam, VIII, 104: Abū'1-Fatḥ b. Warräm.

page 32 note 2 Abū'l-Ghanā'im ‘Abd aṡ-Ṣamad b. ‘Alī al-Hāshimī al-‘Abbāsī (374–465); biographical notices in Muntaຓam, VIII, 280, Shadharāt, III, 319.

page 32 note 3 This Ibn Faḍlān is quite likely the very same Abū ‘Alī b. Faḍlān al-Yahūdī mentioned in Muntaຓam, VIII, 190 (anno 450). The Diary has no other information on the brother. For information concerning Ibn Faḍlān, see Nos. 92, 140, 141, and 152. The last two Nos. indicate a close connexion between Ibn Faḍlān and the wealthy merchant, Shaikh Abū ‘Abd Allāh b. Jarada Ibn Faḍlān is another Jewish banker of Baghdād to be added to those mentioned by Fischel, W.J., Jews in the economic and political life of medieval Islam, 33, n. 1.Google Scholar Note, however, that in Eclipse, III, 282, anno 386/996, there is mention of a Jewish banker by the same name of Abū ‘Alī b. Faḍān al-Yahūdī, who may have been the same person or a descendant.

page 32 note 4 No other obituary found. This name was also supposed to have been that of the Caliph al-Qā'im's mother who died in 452, see Muntaຓam, VIII, 217; Kāmil, anno 452; Bidāya, XII, 86. Ibn al-Jauzī gives two other variants of the name of the Caliph's mother: Badr ad-Dujā and ‘Alam.

page 33 note 1 That is, the sons of Abū Manṡūr b. Yūsuf.

page 33 note 2 Ibn Jahīr (No. 18).

page 33 note 3 In this regard, it is of interest to note that the fifth article (there were seven in all) of the Caliph's written decision for the dismissal of his Wazīr had cited, as a cause for dismissal, the fact that the Wazīr had solicited robes of honour from the Sultan Alp Arslān without the Caliph's permission, and when the Caliph prohibited his wearing them in the Caliphal Palace, the Wazīr asked the Sultan to intervene constraining the Caliph to allow him to do so. (Cf. No. 18, and Mir'āt az-zamān, fol. 112a.)

page 33 note 4 Three brothers are known by this nisba: Abū'l-Ḥasan, Abū'l-Ma‘ālī, and Abū's-Su‘ūd, according to the accounts given by Sam‘ānī, Ansāb, fol. 517a-b, and Yāqūt, Mu‘jam al-Buldān, IV, 469 (there are some inconsistencies in these two accounts which seem to have been derived from a common source). Their father, whose kunya is not given, is said to have become a resident of Baghdād (see Madhār in Le Strange, Lands, map II) where his sons were born. According to Ibn al-Jauzī, Munlaຓam, X, 145–6, Abū Ṭāhir al-Madhārī had a son by the name of Abū'l-M‘ālī Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan al-Madhārī, who was born in 462 and died in 546. If his date of birth is correctly given, this Abū'l-Ma‘ālī could not possibly be the same one referred to in the Diary. Cf. Dhail, I, 45, where the name is given in an isnād next to Ibn al-Bannā’, with some variants: Abၫ'l-Ma‘ālī Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusain al-Madārī. For Abū Ṭāhir, cf. Nos. 78, 116, and 134.

page 33 note 5 Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh al-Baradānī this biographical notice is copied in part by Ibn Rajab, Dhail, I, 11.

page 34 note 1 Besides having the same kunya, Sharīf Abū Ja‘far and the Caliph al-Qā’im are first cousins on the paternal side, according to Ibn Rajab, in Dhail, I, 25.

page 34 note 2 No other obituaries found.

page 35 note 1 The verses of Luqmān and Sajda make a total of 64, not 74, verses.

page 35 note 2 At the date of writing, the author was already 65 years of age; he died 10 years later, in 471, at the age of 75.

page 35 note 3 No other obituary found.

page 35 note 4 No other obituary found.

page 35 note 5 See also No. 79.

page 36 note 1 Abū Naşr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Bannā (434–510); a biographical notice in Dhail, I, 142–3. See also No. 107.

page 36 note 2 The author's father-in-law: Abū Manşūr ‘Alī b. al-Ḥasan al-Qirmīsīnī (374–460); biographical notice in Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, II, 231, cf. Dhail, I, 10. See also No. 107.

page 36 note 3 Brother of Abū ‘Abd Allāh b. Jarada (No. 3).

page 36 note 4 Author of the Diary, see introduction. The author is again mentioned in No. 79.

page 36 note 5 The name of the father of Abū Manşūr b. Yūsuf would then be: Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad b. Yūsuf.

page 37 note 1 Abū ‘Alī Muḥammad b. Washshāḥ b. ‘Abd Allāh (379–63); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, VIII, 271, cf. Shadharāt, in, 314.

page 37 note 2 Abū 'l-Fawāris az-Zainabī (No. 17).

page 37 note 3 Ref. No. 74.

page 37 note 4 Abū'l-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. Muḥammad al-Āmidī (d. 467 or 468); biographical notice in Dhail, 1,11–12.

page 37 note 5 Perhaps Abū Ṭāhir al-Madhārī (No. 65).

page 37 note 6 Author of the Diary, whose name was mentioned in No. 74 above.

page 38 note 1 No biographical notice found.

page 38 note 2 cf. Sūra LVI, 17, and LXXVI, 19.

page 38 note 3 The sources are not consistent about this Hāshimite's name, especially the kunya. In addition to his name as given here, see No. 90: ‘al-Qāḍī Ibn al-Gharīq ’, and No. 134: ‘Ash-Sharīf Abū’l-Ḥasan b. al-Gharāq’. The biographical notice in Muntaຓam, VIII, 283, has ‘Abū'l-Ḥusain ’; so also those in Bidāya, XII, 108 (where erroneously Ibn al-‘Arīf), in Shadharāt, II, 324, and in Kāmil, anno 465. It is possible that his kunya was confused with that of his son Abü’l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh (419–79, in Muntaຓam, IX, 34, Kāmil, anno 479) or with that of his first cousin Abū'l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Muhtadī bi'llāh (384–464, in Muntaຓam, VIII, 274, Bidāya, XII, 105, but: Abū'l-Ḥusain, in Kāmil, anno 464). The latter was a qāḍī in Wāsit; while Ibn al-Gharīq was qāḍī in Baghdād from 409 to 465 (succeeded by his son), as well as preacher in the two jāmi', al-Manşūr and al-Mahdī, for 67 years. Cf. Tārīkh Baghdād, IV, 294, where al-Khaṭīb lists Abū'l-Ḥusain b. al-Gharīq whom he knew and who died in 411. See also Nos. 90, 134, and 162.

page 38 note 4 Perhaps: Abū Naşr Muḥammad b. Hibat Allāh al-Bandanījī aḍ-Ḍarīr ash-Shāfi‘ī (d. 495); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, IX, 133.

page 39 note 1 Abū'l-Ḥasan b. Ismā‘ထ see also Nos. 144 and 154.

page 39 note 2 Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥusain b. ‘Alī b. Ahmad b. al-Busrī (410–97), son of Abū’l-Qāsim ‘Alī b. Aḥmad al-Busri al-Bundār (386–474). His father had moved from the Darb az-Za ‘farānī quarter to Bāb al-Marātib. Biographical notice on the son in Muntaຓam, IX, 140; on the father, ibid., VIII, 333; cf. Shadharāt, III, 346, where the father is also referred to as Ibn al-Busrī.

page 39 note 3 Abū'l-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. ‘Abd al-Malik ash-Shuhūrī (d. 467); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, VIII, 296–7.

page 40 note 1 Abū Naşr ‘Abd as-Saiyid b. Muḥammad b. aş-Sabbāgh (400–77); see GAL, I, 388, Suppl., I, 671; biographical notice also in Muntaຓam, IX, 12–3. See also Nos. 98, 111, 115, and 164.

page 40 note 2 Abū'l-Ḥasan (Abū'l-Ḥusain ?) Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Baiḍawī ash-Shāfi'ī (392–468); cf. biographical notices in Muntaຓam, VIII, 300, and in Subkī, Ṭabaqāt ash-Shāfi‘īya, III, 81 (which has: Abū'l-Ḥasan, also 408 as year of death should be amended to 468); in Bidāya, XII, 113, which has: Abū'l-Ḥusain, as also in Kāmil, anno 468. His son Abū ‘Abd Allāh (d. 470) was a Shāfi‘ite qāḍī in the Karkh quarter. See also No. 115.

page 40 note 3 Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan b. ‘Abd al-Wadūd b. al-Muhtadī bi'llāh ash-Shāmī (380–467); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, VIII, 295. A son of his, Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan, had died in 465. See also No. 103.

page 40 note 4 Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Muຓaffar al-Ḥamawī ash-Shāmī (400–88); biographical notices in Muntaຓam, IX, 94–6, and in Subkī, Ṭabaqāt ash-Skāfi‘īya, III, 83–4.

page 40 note 5 No biographical notice found.

page 41 note 1 Abū'l-Qāsim ‘Abd Allāh b. Dhakhīrat ad-din (448–87), son of the Caliph al-Qā'im; his successor as the Caliph al-Muqtadī (467–87). See also Nos. 130 and 137.

page 42 note 1 There is no way of telling whether he may have been the son of Abū ‘Alī Muhammad b. Ismā‘īl, known as al-‘Irāqi, for long a resident of Baghdād, who died in 459, see Muntaຓam, VIII, 247–8; cf. Ibn al-‘Irāqī (d. 486 in Samarqand), Sam‘anī, Ansāb, fol. 387 b.

page 42 note 2 See also No. 136.

page 42 note 3 A very brief notice in Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, II, 253, without date of birth or death; also mentioned among teachers of the author, ibid., 243.

page 43 note 1 This same sum of money is mentioned in Muntaຓam, VIII, 252, as having been the inheritance of the two sons of Abū Manṡūr b. Yūsuf, who were the sons-in-law of Abū ‘Abd Allāh b. Jarada. Ibn al-Jauzī adds that an equivalent inheritance was received by the daughters from their father. (The following text of the Muntaຓam: would make more sense if amended to:

page 43 note 2 Sūra XXXVII, 173.

page 43 note 3 Sūra v, 61/50.

page 43 note 4 Abū'l-Khaṭṭāb Maḥfūຓ b. Aḥmad al-Kalwadhānī (432–510); biographical notice in Dhail, I, 143–54; see also GAL, I, 398, Suppl., I, 687.

page 43 note 5 See also No. 140.

page 44 note 1 No other information found.

page 44 note 2 Abū'l-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. al-Ḥusain b. Jadā al-‘Ukbarī (d. 468); biographical notice in Dhail, I, 14–16; in Ibn al-Jauzī, Manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, read: instead of:

page 44 note 3 Ibn Rajab does not have this biographical notice in Dhail.

page 44 note 4 On instruction for Ḥanbalite women, cf. the following excerpt taken from Massignon, ‘Note bibliographique sur la direction spirituelle en Islam’, in Études carmélitaines: Direction spirituelle et psyehologie (Desclée de Brouwer, 1951),169:Google Scholar ‘Pour les femmes, en Islam, il n’y a qu'un rite sunnite, le Hanbalisme, où les femmes reçoivent une sorte de direction pour la manière de prier, au moyen de petits eucologes, car ce rite est le seul qui, traditionnellement, conseille, contrairement aux malikites, d'apprendre aux femme à lire: pour prier ’.

page 45 note 1 Abū Muḥammad Rizq Allāh b. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb at-Tamīmī (396–488); biographical notice in Dhail, I, 96–106. See also Nos. 111, 119, 124, 135, and 138.

page 45 note 2 Sūra XXII, 40.

page 45 note 3 The tomb of Abū Manṡūr b. Yūsuf (No. 22 above).

page 46 note 1 This story is also found in Muntaຓam, VIII, 251–2; Mir'āt az-Zamā, fol. 114 a-b; Bidāya,XII, 97.

page 46 note 2 No other information found.

page 46 note 3 That is, Abū Manṡūr b. Yūsuf.

page 46 note 4 The other sources (n. 1, above) give this person's name as Abū'l-Qāsim b. Ridwān (BSOAS, XVIII, 2, 1956, p. 250, n. 3Google Scholar), son-in-law of Abū Manṡūr.

page 46 note 5 Sūra II, 156.

page 46 note 6 In the sources cited above (n. 1, above), this karāma is given a natural explanation, according to which Ibn Riḍwān is said to have lost the purse which was found by Dabbās, during a visit to Abū Manṡūr's tomb.

page 47 note 1 cf. Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan, known by the name of Ibn al-Liḥyānī as-Suffar (aṡ-Ṣaffar,d. 462); biographical notices in Ibn al-Jazarī, Ṭabaqāt al-Qurrā', (ed. Bergsträsser—Pretzl), I, 48, Muntaຓam, VIII, 258.

page 48 note 1 No other information found.

page 48 note 2 For as-Sunnī, Ibn (as-Sinnī), cf. Tārīkh Baghdād, XI, 82–3,Google Scholar Muntaຓam, VIII, 247 (d. 459), a possible relation.

page 48 note 3 This passage was added later by the author, as is evident from the position of the smaller size handwriting and the content of the passage.