|
788 |
Cf. R. Dozy
in Journal asiatique, XIV 6 (1869), 160 f. Dozy prefers "information" to "traditions."
For the modern literature dealing with the Mahdi
traditions, cf., for instance, D. B. Macdonald in EI, s.v. "al-Mahdi,"
and, for some of the additional Shi'ah material, W. Ivanow,
Ismaili Tradition Concerning the Rise of the Fatimids
(Islamic Research Association Series, No. l0)
(Oxford University Press, 1942), pp. 95 ff. |
789 |
See n. 105 to Ibn Khaldun's Introduction, above. The relevant material
appears in at-Tirmidhi's Sahih
(Bulaq, 1292/1875), 11, 23-44, and esp. p. 36.
It should
be noted that the chief authorities, al-Bukhari and Muslim, do not have
the traditions concerning the Mahdi as Ibn Khaldun quotes them.
|
790 |
Sulayman b. al-Ash'ath, ca.
202-275
[817/18-889]. Cf. GAL, 1, 161; Suppl., 1, 266 f.
Cf. his Sunan
(Cairo, 1310/1892-93, in the margin of azZurqani,
Sharh al-Muwatta'), IV,
86-89. |
791 |
Ahmad b. 'Amr, d. 292 [904/5]. Cf. GAL,
Suppl., I,
258. His
Musnad has not yet
been published. The form al-Bazzar is indicated in A, C, and D. B has
al-Bazzaz. |
792 |
Muhammad b. Yazid,
209-273 [824/25-887]. Cf. GAL,
I,163; Suppl., I, 270. His
Sunan have a chapter on the
appearance of the Mahdi; cf.
the ed. (Cairo, 1313/1896), II, 269 f. |
793 |
See n. 250 to Ch. l, above. His
Mustadrak deals with the
traditions in question at IV, 418 ff, of the Hyderabad ed. |
794 |
Sulayman b.
Ahmad, 260-360 [873-971]. Cf. GAL, Suppl.,
I, 279. His relevant works have not yet been
published. |
795 |
Ahmad b. 'Ali, d. 307 [919/20]. Cf. GAL,
Suppl., I,
258. His
Musnad has not yet
been published. |
796 |
Abdallah b. Masud. Cf. A. Jeffery,
Materials for the History of the Text of the Qur'an
(Leiden, 1937), pp. 20 ff. |
797 |
Sa'd b. Malik. Cf. 1:439, above. He
died ca. 63-65 [682-685]. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, III,
479
f. |
798 |
One of Muhammad's wives. Cf. Ibn Hajar, XII, 411
f. |
799 |
One of
Muhammad's wives. Cf. Ibn Hajar, XII, 455 ff. |
800 |
Thawbin b. Bujdud, d. ca. 54 [674]. Cf. Ibn
Hajar, II, 31. |
801 |
He
died ca. 64 [683/84]. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, VIII, 370. |
802 |
Ibn Hajar, Isabah (Calcutta,
1856-73),
II, 1217, No. 10062, mentions him and his son 'Ali after at-Tabarani, but nothing else
is known about him. |
803 |
He died between 85 and 88 [704-707]. Cf.
Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, V, 178 f.
|
804 |
Abd-ar-Rahman b. 'Abdallah, 508-581 [1114/15-1185]. Cf. GAL,
I, 413; Suppl., I, 739
f. The work referred to is his commentary on Ibn Hisham's Sirah,
entitled ar-Rawd al-unuf (Cairo, 1332/1914), I, 160. |
805 |
Ahmad b. Zuhayr, 185-279 [801-893]. Cf.
GAL, Suppl., I, 272. |
806 |
There is a well-known scholar Abu Bakr Muhammad b.
Muhammad b. Malik al-Iskafi, 263-352 [876/77-963]. Cf. as-Sam'ini,
Ansab (E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series, No. 20) (Leiden &
London, 1912), fol. 35a; alKhattb al-Baghdadi, Ta'rikh
Baghdad (Cairo, 1349/1931), III, 219 f. However, he
is generally praised as a reliable scholar, and the person mentioned may
be someone else. |
807 |
Born in 60 [679/80],
he died in 130 [747/48] or 131 [748/49]. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, IX, 473 ff. |
808 |
Apparently, Jabir b. 'Abdallah,
who died between 73 [692/93] and 77 [696/97]. Cf. Ibn
Hajar, Tahdhib, II, 42 f. The Jabir mentioned below, p.
169,
is expressly called Jabir b. 'Abdallah by Muslim. Otherwise,
this could be his contemporary, Jabir b. Samurah; cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, II, 39 f. |
809 |
One of the seven readers of
the Qur'an, d. between 127 and 128 [744 and 746]. Cf. Ibn Uajar, Tahdhib, V, 38 ff. His father's name was Bahdalah. |
810 |
He died between 80
and 83 [699 and 703]. Cf. al-Bukhari, Ta'rikh
(Hyderabad, 1360-/1941-), II 1, 409;
Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, III, 331 f. |
811 |
In connection with this
tradition, Abu Dawud mentions different chains of transmitters from 'Asim
down. In one of them, the transmitter on the authority of 'Asim is this Za'idah b. Qudamah, who
died between 160 and 163 [776 and 780]. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, III,
306 f.
Here, and in some of the subsequent citations of
traditions, it has proved impossible always to follow the involved
course of quotations within quotations by using sequences of double and
single quotation marks, in the conventional way; so that quotations are
sometimes presented without the use of quotation marks at all. But no
loss of clarity can possibly result from this.
|
812 |
Cf. p. 208,
below. The Risalah
apparently is not preserved. |
813 |
Sufyan b. Sa'id, who was born
ca. A.D. 718 and died in 161
[777/78]. Cf. al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Ta'rikh
Baghdad, IX, 151. |
814 |
Shu'bah b. al-Hajjaj, d. 160
[776/77]. Cf. al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, IX, 255 ff. |
815 |
Here and repeatedly in the pages following we have
typical examples of the important traditional discipline of "personality
criticism," concerned with evaluating the reliability of
hadith transmitters. (Cf. 1:72
[n. 2], above.) Ibn Khaldun did not, of course, collect all his
statements from primary sources, but relied upon one of the large
dictionaries compiled by hadith
scholars. Practically all the material he mentions can be
found under the relevant entries of Ibn Hajar's
Tahdhib. Since that work is
based upon the Tahdh'ib
of al-Mizzi, which, in turn, is based upon the
Kamal fi
ma'rifat arrijal by
al-Jammi'ili (cf. GAL, I, 357;
suppl., I, 606), the inference
is that Ibn Khaldun used al-Jamma'ili or one of the works depending on
him. Most of these works are available only in MS, and were not at hand
for the close checking that would be necessary to ascertain the exact
provenience of Ibn Khaldun's remarks. |
816 |
Sulayman b. Mihran, d. 147/48 [764/65]. Cf. al-Khatib
al-Baghdadi, Ta'rikh Baghdad, IX, 3 ff. |
817 |
Ahmad b. 'Abdallah
b. Sahih, whose dates extend from 182 [798/99] to after 260 [873/74],
rather than his less famous father.- Cf. al-Khalib alBaghdadi, IV, 214
f. |
818 |
Shaqiq b. Salimah. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, IV,
361 ff. |
819 |
Cf. Ibn Sa'd, Tabaqat ed.
E. Sachau et al. (Leiden,
1905-40), VI, 224. |
820 |
He died in
277 [891]. Cf. GAL, Suppl., III,
1195;. 2d ed., II, 662; F. Rosenthal,
A History of Muslim Historiography, p.
320 (n. 4). |
821 |
Born in 240 [854/55], he died in 327 [9391. Cf. GAL, Suppl.,
I, 278
f. Comparison with Ibn Abi Hatim's Kitab al-Jarh
wa-t-ta'dil (Hyderabad, 1360-73/1941-53), III
1, 341, shows that the following quotations, down to the one marked by
n. 825, were originally derived from it. |
822 |
Muhammad b. Idris ar-Razi, who is repeatedly quoted here as Abu Hatim,
d. 277 [890]. Cf. al-Khatib al-Baghdadi,
Ta'rikh Baghdad, II, 73 ff. |
823 |
In this case, the reference seems to be to the compatriot
of the aforementioned Abu Hatim, namely, Abu Zur'ah ar-Razi,
'Ubaydallah b. 'Abdal-Karim, 200-264 [815/16-878]. Cf. al-Khatib
al-Baghdadi, X, 326 ff. |
824 |
Isma'il
b. Ibrahim, 110-193 [728/29-809]. Cf. al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, VI, 229 f . |
825 |
This is one of the
phrases used to express disapproval in the terminology of
the science of personality criticism. Cf. p. 168 (n. 867), below.
|
826 |
Ahmad b.
'Ali, 215-303 [83o-915]. Cf. GAL, I,
162 f.; Suppl., I, 269 f. |
827 |
Ahmad b. al-Hasan,
183-243 [799/800-857/58]. Cf. al-Khatib alBaghdadi,
II, 78 ff.; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, I,
24. |
828 |
Muhammad b.
'Amr, d. s22 [934]. Cf. GAL, Suppl., I, 278. |
829 |
Ali b. 'Umar, 306-385 [918/19-995]. Cf. GAL, I, 165; Suppl.,
I, 275. |
830 |
Yahya b. Sa'id,
120-198 [737/38-813/14]. Cf. al-Khatib al-Baghdadi,
Ta'rikh Baghdad, XIV, 135 ff.; Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, XI,
216 ff. |
831 |
Muhammad b. 'Ali, 673-748 [1274-1348]. Cf. GAL,
II, 46 ff; Suppl., II, 45
ff.
The statement is
derived from his Mizan
(Lucknow, 1301/1884), II, 5. |
832 |
He died in
153 [7701. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib,
VIII, 300 ff. |
833 |
He died between 114 and 125 [732/33 and 742/431. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, VIII, 310.
|
834 |
Amir b. Withilah, who died ca.
100 [718/19]. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, V, 82 ff.
|
835 |
Ibn Khaldun mentions another, slightly different
version of this tradition, used by a pseudo-Messiah as credentials, in
'Ibar, VI, 250; de
Slane (tr.), II, 226 f. |
836 |
Yahya b. Main, 158-233 [774/75-848]. Cf. GAL,
Suppl., I,
258; F.
Rosenthal, A History of Muslim Historiography,
271 (n. 7). |
837 |
Born in 143 [760/61], he died in 227 [842]. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, I,
50 f. |
838 |
Born ca. A.D. 718, he died between 192 and 194 [807-810].
Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, XII,
34
ff. |
839 |
Ibrahim b. Ya'qub, d. 259 [873]. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, I,
181 ff. |
840 |
Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, XI,
12 f. The same man already appears in al-Bukhari's
Ta'rikh, IV, 2, 225. |
841 |
Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, VIII, 93 f. |
842 |
Cf. ibid.,
IV, 352. |
843 |
Amr b. 'Abdallah, d. 126-29 [743-47]. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, VIII, 63 ff
C seems to have a wrong as-Subay'i. |
844 |
The
following is also derived from Abu Dawud. |
845 |
He died 140-43 [757-611.
Cf.
Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, X, 172 f. |
846 |
Cf. ibid.,
XII, 74,
where it is stated that the man is known only through
this tradition. |
847 |
Cf.
ibid., XI,
83, where it is stated that he
is known only through this tradition. Perhaps, he is thought to be
identical with the person mentioned by al-Bukhari,
Ta'rikh, IV 2, 202 f. |
848 |
Abmad b. 'Ali b. 'Amr, 311-404 [923/24-1014]. Cf.
as-Sam' ani, Ansab,
fol. 305a; Ibn al-'Imad,
Shadharat adh-dhahab
(Cairo, 1350-51/1931-33),
III, 172. |
849 |
He died in 125 [742/43].
Cf. Ibn
Hajar, Tahdhib, VII,
391 f. |
850 |
Salih b. Abi Maryam. Cf, Ibn Hajar, IV, 402
f. |
851 |
Cf. p. 183,
below. |
852 |
Cf. pp. 175, 187, and 3:93,
below. |
853 |
Apparently, Hisham b. 'Urwah, who died 145-47
[762-65]. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, XI,
48 ff. |
854 |
He died between 79 and 84 [698-703]. Cf. ibid., V,
180 f. |
855 |
Qatadah b. Di'amah, d. 117 [735]. Cf. ibid., VIII,
351 ff. |
856 |
Imran b. Dawar. Cf. ibid., VIII, 130-32. |
857 |
Al-Mundhir
b. Malik, d. 108/9 [726-281. Cf. ibid., X, 302 f. |
858 |
Born in 101 [719/20], he died in 182 [798/99]. Cf.
Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, XI, 325 ff. |
859 |
That is, the
Muslims who were not Kharijites. |
860 |
Muhammad b. 'Ali. Cf. GAL,
I, 161. |
861 |
Cf. 1:411 (n. 271), above. 'Imran is mentioned in
connection with him in Abul-Faraj al-Isfahani, Maqatil al- Talibiyin
(Cairo, 1368/1949), p. 371. |
862 |
Zayd b. al-Hawari. Cf. al-Bukhari,
Ta'rikh, II,
1, 358; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, III, 407 ff. |
863 |
Bakr b. 'Amr, d. 108 [726/27].
Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, I, 486. The vocalization Siddiq
is indicated in C. Instead of 'Amr, the name of his father is also given
as Qays; cf. al-Bukhari, Ta'rikh, 12, 93. |
864 |
Cf. also p.
181, below. |
865 |
Yazid b. Aban, d. between 110 and 120 [728-738]. Cf. Ibn
Hajar, Tahdhib,
XI, 309 ff. |
866 |
A nephew of Yazid. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, VIII,
283 ff. |
867 |
This is a phrase expressing disapproval of a
transmitter's reliability. It is
equivalent to "He is nothing." Cf, Ibn as-Salah,
Muqaddimah (Aleppo,
1350/1931), p. 137 (end of Ch. XXIII). Such circumlocutions were used as a
cautious way of judging fellow scholars.
While most of the preceding remarks on Zayd al 'Ammi are
to be found in Ibn Abi Hatim, Kitab al-Jarh
wa-t-ta'dil, 12, 560 f., this last one,
attributed to Ibn Abi Hatim's father, is missing there.
|
868 |
Abdallah b. 'Adi, 277-365 [891-976]. Cf. GAL, I,
167;
Suppl., I, 280; as-Sahmi, Ta'rikh Jurjan
(Hyderabad, 1369/1950), pp. 225 ff. |
869 |
Muslim,
Sahih, II, 689;
Handbook, p. 100b. |
870 |
Awf b. Abi Jamilah,
who was born in 59 or a few years later, and who died in 146/47
[678/79-763/64]. Cf. al-Bukhari, Ta'rikh, IV
1,
58; Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, VIII, 166 f. |
871 |
Cf. al-Bukhari, Ta'rikh,
11 2, 26.
His father's name may possibly have been 'Ubayd. |
872 |
For this translation of sahdhan, cf. R. Dozy,
Supplement aux dictionnaires
arabes, I, 818a, but sihahan "in
good coins" may be meant. |
873 |
See n. 109 to Ibn Khaldun's
Introduction, above. |
874 |
Born in 132 [749/50], he died in 212 [827/28]. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, 1, 260;
GAL, Suppl., 1, 257. |
875 |
He died in 167 [784]. Cf. ibid., III,
II, ff. |
876 |
Matar b. Tahman, d. ca. 140 [757/58].
Cf. ibid., X, 167 ff. |
877 |
Umarah b. Juwayn. Cf. ibid., VII, 412 ff. |
878 |
Cf. al-Bukhari,
Ta'rikh, 12, 50. |
879 |
Supposedly, the great
Spanish scholar. See n. 284 to this chapter, above, |
880 |
I have no
information on this man. An Abu Wail at-Tamimi
is mentioned on a page dealing with patronymics, at the end of the MS. Topkapusaray, Ahmet III, 2995, fol. 327a, but the
information given by Ibn Khaldun on the following page in the name of
Ibn Hibbin's Thiqat is not found there. He may have been
mentioned in the Thiqat in some place I had no opportunity to
check. |
881 |
Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib,
II, 328. |
881a |
Cf. his Kitab al-Jarh wa-t-ta'dil,12,
42 f. |
882 |
Cf. Ibn Hibban, Thiqat, MS. Topkapusaray, Ahmet
III, 2995, fol. 80a.
The information given here
in the name of adh-Dhahabi does not appear in his Mizan under al-Hasan b. Yazid, at least not
in the edition (Lucknow,
1301/1884) consulted by me. |
883 |
He died in 188/90 [804-6]. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, VII, 90
f. |
884 |
Born in 47 [667/68], he died in 136
[753/54]. Cf. ibid., XI, 329 ff. |
885 |
Two Ibrahims are mentioned as transmitters
on 'Alqamah's authority: Ibrahim b. Suwayd (cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, 1, 126 f.),
and the more prominent Ibrahim b. Yazid an-Nakha'i. The latter was 'Alqamah's
nephew, and died in
96 [714/15]. Cf. ibid., i, 177 ff. |
886 |
Alqamah b. Qays. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib,
VII, 276 f . |
887 |
He died in 195 [810/11]. Cf, al-Bukhari,
Ta'rikh, II, 207
f.; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, IX, 405 f. |
888 |
Either the afore-mentioned Razi, or Abu Zur'ah ad-Dimashgi,
'Abdar-Rahman b. 'Amr, d. 282 [895]. Cf. GAL, Suppl., 1,
208 f. |
889 |
This is a
term of rather mild disapproval. |
890 |
Cf. Ibn 'Adi, al-Kamil fi du'afd' ar-rijal, MS.
Topkapusaray, Ahmet III, 2943, Vol. III, fols. 252b-253a. Ibn 'Adi
mentions some of the material quoted here by Ibn Khaldun. |
891 |
Born in 131 [748/491, he died in 197 [812]. Cf. al-Khatib al-Baghdadi,
Ta'rikh
Baghdad, XIII, 496 ff. |
892 |
Ubaydallah b. Sa'id, d. 241 1855/561. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, VII, 16 f. |
893 |
Hammad b. Usamah, d. 201
[8171. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, III,
2 f. |
894 |
Cf. adh-Dhahabi,
Mizan, II, 600 f. |
895 |
Yasin b. Shayban. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, XI,
172 f. |
896 |
Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, I,
157. |
897 |
This statement is not from al-Bukhari's Ta'rikh, IV
2, 429, where Yasin is
briefly mentioned. |
898 |
Cf. adh-Dhahabi, Mizan, II,
571. |
899 |
He died in 174 [790/91]. Cf. GAL, Suppl.,
I, 256. |
900 |
He died after 120 [738]. Cf. Ibn Ilajar,
Tahdhib, VIII, 11. |
901 |
i.e., Jabir b. 'Abdallah.
Cf. p. 159 (n. 808), above. |
902 |
Cf. also
1:407, above. |
903 |
Cf. p.
165, above. |
904 |
Cf. Qur'an 2.249 (250), where
the story of Saul is mixed up with that of Gideon (Judg. 7:6). In Judg.
7:6, the number of men is given as 300. For the comparison between the
number of Muslim fighters at Badr in 624 and that of Saul's men, cf. at-Tabari,
Annales, I, 1296 R. The canonical number for both groups is there
set at "310 and some," or 313. Cf. also, for instance, ath-Tha'labi,
Qisas al-anbiyd', the account of Saul; and Ibn Kathir, Biddyah,
III, 268 f. Elsewhere, the number of fighters at Badr is indicated
as 1,000,
and the Qur'an commentators also mention 1,000 and 3,000
as the number of the men with Saul. Cf. also H. von Maik, in
Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes, XXIX
(1915), 370-83.
|
905 |
The
mountains of Mecca. |
906 |
Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, VII, 406
f. |
907 |
He died between 152 and 159 [769-75]. Cf.
ibid., XI, 433 f. The
name of his father is
said to have been `Amr. |
908 |
He died in 199
[814/15]. Cf. as-Sam'ini, .Ansdb,
fol. 401 a;
Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, VIII, 98 f. |
909 |
Ali b. 'Abdallah, 161 [177/78] to 234 or 235 [849-50]. Cf. al-Khatib
al-Baghdadi, Ta'rikh Baghdad, XI,
458 ff; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, VII,
349 ff. |
910 |
Sufyan b. 'Uyaynah. Cf. n. 88 to Ibn
Khaldun's Introduction, above. |
911 |
Unidentified. The son of
the Umayyad caliph Marwan
(mentioned by de Slane) died much too early to have passed critical
judgment on 'Ammar. |
912 |
He died in
219 [834]. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, III,
477. |
913 |
Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, VII,
321 f., where the tradition is quoted. Ibn
Hajar states that it should be 'Abdallah b. Ziyad. He states this as if
it were his own original suggestion. Cf. n. 917, below. |
914 |
He died in 159 [775/76]. Cf.
ibid., VII, 261 ff. |
915 |
Probably one of the two mentioned by Ibn Hajar,
ibid., I,
289 ff., both of whom died ca. 750. |
916 |
Hamzah was one of the uncles of the Prophet, Jafar
a brother of 'Ali. |
916a |
Only the
first part of Abu Hatim's statement appears
in Ibn Abi Hatim, Kitab al-Jarb wa-t-ta'dil, III, 11. |
917 |
Cf. adh-Dhahabi, Mizan, II, 202, where,
however, adh-Dhahabi does not make the remark concerning the name. |
918 |
Ya'qub was born in 182 [778/79]
and died in 262 [875]. Cf. al-Khatib al-Baghdidi, Ta'rikh Baghdad,
XIV, 281 ff. |
919 |
Mujahid b. Jabr, d. between 101 and 104
[719-29]. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, X,
42 ff. |
920 |
Cf. p. 88, above. |
921 |
For Ismail, cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, I, 279; for his father, ibid., I, 167 f. |
922 |
Bulaq: "the two Sahihs." |
923 |
Abdallah b. Zayd, d. between 104 and 107 [722-26].
Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, V, 224
ff. Cf. also adh-Dhahabi, Mizan, II, 36. |
924 |
Born in 126 [743/44], he died in 211 [827]. Cf. Ibn Hajar,
Tahdhib, VI, 310 ff. |
925 |
Cf. p. 175,
above. |
926 |
Cf. p. 168, above. |
927 |
Or al-'Uqayli. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, IX, 435 f. |
928 |
The son of Ibn hanbal was the transmitter of most of
the opinions reported here in the name of his father. He was born in
213 [828/29]
and died in 290 [903]. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib,
V, 141 ff. |
929 |
Cf. ibid.,
I, 470. |
930 |
Cf. ibid.,
X, 83 f. |
931 |
Jidhm, as in all the MSS.
The word means a part of a tradition that has been "cut off" from the
main body (and possibly amplified). The dictionaries do not list this
meaning for it. |
932 |
I, 243. |
933 |
The tradition is
not mentioned under Qurrah's name in at-Tabarani's
Large Mu'jam, for which I
consulted the MS. Topkapusaray, Ahmet III, 227, Vol. III (pt. 10). |
934 |
He died in 206 [821). Cf.
al-Khatib al-Baghdadi,
Ta'rikh Baghdad,
VIII, 359 ff.; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, III,
199 ff. |
935 |
The
following two paragraphs are omitted in Bulaq. |
936 |
Cf, p. 165, above. |
937 |
He died not long after 190
[806/7]. Cf. al-Bukhari, Ta'rikh, 112,
85; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, IV,
153 f. |
938 |
The famous historian.
Cf. 1:7 (n. 10),
above. For unfavorable opinions concerning him as transmitter, cf.
Ibn l;Iajar,
Tahdhib, IX,
43. |
939 |
He died in
173 [789/90]. Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib,
V, 326 ff. |
940 |
He died in 149 [767]. Cf.
ibid., X,
95 ff. |
941 |
Bulaq: "As
one has seen, very few ..." |
942 |
Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, IX,
143 ff. |
943 |
Born in 60 [679/80], he died some time after
110 [728-29]. Cf. ibid., I, 94 f. |
944 |
The famous saint and scholar of early Islam, who died in
110 [728]. Cf. GAL, I, 61 f.; Suppl.,
I, 102 f. Cf. 1:lxxv f. above. |
945 |
Ahmad b. al-Husayn, 384-458 [994-1066]. Cf. GAL,
I, 364; Suppl.,
1, 618 f. |
946 |
Cf. Qur'an 3.46 (40); 5.110 (109). |
947 |
Even if the tradition is interpreted to refer to the
Mahdi, it is not the historical Jesus who is meant, but the future one
who is equated with the expected Mahdi. |
948 |
The legend of a pious Jew whom a harlot was unable to
seduce. She persuaded a shepherd to make her pregnant, and the Jews
accused Jurayj of fornication. He prayed, and the infant spoke, saying
that his father was the shepherd. Cf. Ibn Hanbal,
Musnad (Cairo, 1913/1895), II,
307 f.; atTawhidi, Imta'
(Cairo, 1939-44), 11, 97 f.; al-Qushayri,
Risalah (Cairo, 1367/1948), p.
161; Ibn Kathir, Biddyah, II,
134. Cf. also J. Horovitz,
Spuren griechischer Mimen im Orient (Berlin,
1905), pp. 78 f1. |
949 |
Cf. 1:435 ff, above. |
950 |
Cf. 1:402
ff, above. |
951 |
Cf. 1:185, 403, and 471, above. |
951a |
That is, pantheism or monism. |
952 |
Cf. 3:93, below. |
953 |
Al-Junayd b. Mubammad, d.
298 [910/11]. Cf. GAL, I,
199; Suppl.,
I, 354 f. |
954 |
The famous mystic, whose
mystical thinking dominated that of Ibn Khaldun and his period. Muhammad
b. `Ali, 560-638 [1165-1240]. Cf. GAL,
I, 441 ff.; suppl., I,
790 ff. |
955 |
Cf. 1:322, above. |
956 |
Abd-al-Haqq b. Ibrahim, 623 or 624 [1226/27] to 669 [12711. Cf. GAL,
I, 465 f.; Suppl., I, 844. |
957 |
I have no
information on him beyond Ibn Khaldun's remarks. |
958 |
Cf.
1:396
ff., above. |
959 |
This apparently means that when the Mahdi appears he
will enjoy the spiritual presence of Muhammad. |
960 |
The title of Ibn 'Arabi's work is Anqa' maghrib fi khatm al-awliya'
wa-shams al-maghrib, "The Phoenix on the Sealing of the Saints and
the Sun (Rising from) the West." The expression khatm al-awliya'
occurs again in the introduction to the work. Otherwise, the work has
little to do with this subject, and there seems little occasion to speak
of the Fatimid in connection with it. The subsequent quotation from Ibn
'Arabi is not found in it, either; apparently Ibn Khaldun quoted the
work through Ibn Abi Watil.
I consulted the following MSS of the 'Anqa' in
Istanbul: Reis el-Kuttap 483 (dated 844 [1441]); Koprulu
749 (probably seventeenth century); Ragib Papa 1453, fols.
133a-180b
(eighteenth century copy of a MS written by Ibn 'Arabi's student, Sadr-ad-din
al-Qonawi, approved by Ibn 'Arabi himself); and Carullah 1062.
An incomplete work on the Mahdi is ascribed to the same Qonawi in the
MS. Aya Sofya 4849, fols. 168a-180a. Cf. GAL, I, 449
f.; Suppl., I, 807 f. [Further MSS of the 'Anqa' are
enumerated by K. 'Awwad in Majallat al-Majma' al-'Ilmi al-'Arabi
(Damascus), XXIX (1954), 532. 'Awwad appears, however, to be
wrong when he says that the work has been published.]
|
961 |
Cf. al-Bukhari,
Sahih, II, 390. |
962 |
Cf. p. 61
(n. 587), above. |
963 |
Cf. n. 960, above. |
964 |
Cf. p. 3:173 (n. 809), below. |
965 |
Or ten years
later, if counted from the death of the Prophet. |
966 |
Cf. 1:176 (n. 231),
above. For the quotations from al-Kindi that follow, cf. his
Risalah fi
mulk al-'Arab, ed. O. Loth, in
Morgenldndische Forschungen (Festschrift H. L. Fleischer) (Leipzig, 1875),
pp. 261-309; and F. Rosenthal, Ahmad b. at-Tayyib
as-Sarahsi (American Oriental Series, No. 26)
(New Haven, 1943), pp. 122 f. Cf. also below, pp. 194 and 218. Al-Kindi's
Risalah is also
briefly quoted by Pseudo-Majriti, Ghayah,
ed. H. Ritter (Leipzig & Berlin, 1933), pp.
175 f., a work with which Ibn Khaldun was very familiar. |
967 |
This refers to the disappearance of time intervals in the
Messianic age. |
968 |
Cf. pp. 205
ff., and 3:59,
below. |
969 |
Cf. pp. 185
f., above. |
970 |
Cf. Ahmad b.
Hanbal,
Musnad, V, 89,
and related
traditions in Muslim, Sahih,
II, 194 f.; Concordance, I, 306b, II. 7 ff.;
II, 70b, II. 1 ff. |
971 |
Cf.
Concordance, II,
70b.
Cf. also below, p. 285. |
972 |
As described above, p. 188. |
973 |
i.e.,
the Mahdi. |
974 |
For the traditions
concerning the Muslim conquest of Constantinople, cf. M. Canard,
"Les Expeditions des Arabes contre Constantinople dans l'histoire et
dans la legende," Journal asiatique, CCVIII
(1926), 105 ff.; and, most recently, L.
Massignon, "Textes relatifs a la prise de Constantinople,"
Oriens, VI (1953), 10-17.
Cf.
also above, 1:329. |
975 |
Cf p. 191, above, and pp. 218 f.,
below. For jafr, cf.
D. B. Macdonald in
EI, s.v. "Djafr." |
976 |
In the "western"
numeration, d is 90 and l 8. Kh,
600, must be supplied. |
977 |
In 'Ibar, III,
538, in connection with the Mongol conquest of Baghdad,
Ibn Khaldun remarks that al-Kindi accurately predicted the end of Arab
power in the seventh decade of the seventh century. ("The 660's" may be
a correction of the editor for "690's [?]" but see below, p. 218, where
the middle of the seventh century is mentioned.) |
978 |
For the presumed meaning of
the words in this tradition, cf.
Majdad-din Ibn al-Athir,
Nihayah (Cairo, 1322/1904), IV, 262. |
979 |
Gharb
usually means "west," but is here interpreted according
to another meaning, "large bucket." |
980 |
Cf.
Autobiography, pp. 371 f.;
W. J.
Fischel,
An Khaldun and Tamerlane
(Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1952), p. 36. |
981 |
Cf.
1:305 f., 320, and 322 ff., above. |
982 |
i.e.,
descendants of 'Ali's brother Jafar b. AbI Talib. |
983 |
Cf. 1:128,
above. |
984 |
The Merinid
[1286-1307]. |
985 |
i.e., Sinhajah. Cf. 1:128
(n. 112), above. |
986 |
Cf. 1:326
f., above. |
987 |
Cf. 1:327,
above. |
988 |
For al-'Ubbad (El Eubbad), cf. p. 1:lii, above. For Abu Madyan, who died in
694 [1197/98], cf. R. Brunschvig, La
Berberie orientate, II, 317 f r. |
989 |
In 1299 and the following years. Cf. `Ibar, VII,
94 f.; de Slane (tr.), III, 375 f.; H. Terrasse,
Histoire du Maroc (Casablanca, 1949-50), II, 43. |
990 |
Ibn Khaldun refers to this story again in
the Autobiography, pp. 34 f. Cf. also Ibn Hajar, ad-Durar al-kaminah
(Hyderabad, 1848-50/1929-31), III, 288 f |
991 |
Qur'an 2.216
(213), 232 (232); 3.66 (59); 24.19 (19). |
992 |
Cf. 1:302 ff.,
above. |
993 |
The vocalization in C may
be Mira. |
994 |
Cf. 'Ibar, VI, 81
and VI, 38
f.; de Slane (tr.), I, 153 ff.
and I, 81
ff; R. Brunschvig,
La Berbtrie
orientate, II, 334 f. |
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