Autograph Diary of an Eleventh-Century Historian of Baghdād—I

George Makdisi

doi:10.1017/S0041977X00122189

Autograph Diary of an Eleventh-Century Historian of Baghdād—I

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009

George Makdisi

Article contents

Extract
References

Get access

Rights & Permissions

Extract

The Arabic manuscript which forms a part of Majmū‘ No. 17, preserved in the ຒahirīya Library in Damascus, is the only fragment extant of a diary kept during the fifth/eleventh century by a contemporary historian of Baghdad, Abū ’Alī b. al-Bannā’ al-Ḥanbalī. An edition and translation of this fragment (hereafter referred to as the Diary) are given here for the first time. It covers in some detail a period of slightly more than one year, from A.H. 460 to A.H. 461 (corresponding to A.D. 1068–69), in the socio-religious history of Baghdad.

Type: Articles
Information: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 1956 , pp. 9 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00122189 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1956

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

^{page 09 note 1} I am happy to have this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to Professors Louis Massignon and Henri Laoust for the encouragement and advice I received from them with regard to this study; to Mr. ‘Umar Kaḥḥālī, Director of the Ẓāhirāya Library, and Mr. Khānjī, Secretary of the Arab Academy, for the facilities granted to me; to Messrs. Henri Laoust and Nikita Elisséeff for the use of the facilities at the Institut Français de Damas; to the U.S. Cultural Center in Damascus and their photographer, Mr. Joseph Fehdeh, for microfilming facilities. I gratefully acknowledge a grant in aid of this work from the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. My thanks are also particularly due to the Editorial Board of the BSOAS for accepting this study, especially the Arabic text, for publication, and to Dr. D. S. Rice for his generous help in reading and correcting the proofs.

^{page 09 note 2} His full name is Abū ‘Alī al-Hasan b. Ahmad b. ‘Abd Allāh b. al-Bannā’ al-Baghdādī al-Hanbalī. Numerous biographical notices have been devoted to him, the most complete of which is that by Bajab, Ibn in his Dhail ‘alā ṭabaqāt al-ḥranābila, I (ed. Dahhān, Henri Laoust—Sāmī, 1951), 41–7.Google ScholarThe other biographical notices used are as follows: Ibn Abī Ya& ‘lā, Tabaqāt al-hanābila (ed. Ḥāmid al-Fiqī, M., Cairo, , 1952), II, 243–4Google Scholar; al-Jauzī, Ibn, Al-muntaຓam fī tārīkh al-mulūk wa'l-umam (Haidarībīd, 1357/1938 ff.), VIII, 319–20Google Scholar; al-Jauzī, Ibn, Manāqib al-Imām Aลmad b. Hanbal (ed. Amīn al-Khānjī, M., Cairo, , 1349/1930), 523Google Scholar; Yāqūt, , Irshād al-arīb ilā ma‘rifat al-adīb (Cairo, 1936–1938), VII, 265–70Google Scholar; al-Athīr, Ibn, Al-kāmil fī ‘t-tāīkh (Cairo, 1348/1929 ff.), VIII, 127 (anno 471)Google Scholar; Qifṭī, , Inbāh ar-ruwāh ‘alā anbāh an-nuhāh (ed. Abū'l-Faḍl Ibrāhim, M., Cairo, 1952), 256Google Scholar; Dhahabī, , Tadhkirat al-ลuff?āz (Haidarābad, 1315/1897), III, 348Google Scholar; Dhahabī, , Duwal al-islām (Haidarābād, 1337/1918), II, 4Google Scholar; Yāfi‘ī, , Mir’at al-janān wa-‘ibrat al-yaqຓān (Haidarābād, 1338/1919), III, 100Google Scholar; Nābulusī, , Mukhtaṣar tabaqāt al-ḥanābila (ed. Ubaid, Aḥmad, Damascus, 1930), 397Google Scholar; al-Jazarī, Ibn, Kitāb ghāyat an-nihāya fī ṭabaqāt al-qurrā’ (ed. Bergstrüsser-Pretzl, , Leipzig-Cairo, 1933–1937), I, 206Google Scholar (notice that Ibn al–Jazarī designates the notice of Ibn al-Bannā’ by the letter ‘ain, which means that the latter was also treated in all the important works mentioned by Ibn al-Jazarī in the introduction); ‘Asqalānī, , Lisān al-mīzān (Haidarābād, 1329/1911 ff.), II, 195–6;Google ScholarSuyūṭī, , Bughyat al-wu’āh fī ṭabaqāt an-nahwīyīn wa’nnuḥāh (Cairo, 1326/1908), 216;Google Scholar ‘Ulaimī, , Al-manhaj al-abmad fī tarājim al-Imām Aḥmad, MS. Dār al-Kutub, Cairo, Tārīkh 838 (Taimūr), 197Google Scholar; al-’Imād al-Ḥanbalī, Ibn, Shadharāt adh-dhahab fī akhbār man dhahab (Cairo, 1350/1931 ff.), III, 338–9.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 1} Inasmuch as his three sons studied under his direction, more will be said about them in reating of his students, below. For his father-in-law, see the brief notice in Dhail, I, 10.

^{page 10 note 2} cf. Arthur Jeffery, Materials for the history of the Qur'ān, 1 and n. 4.

^{page 10 note 3} Tārīkh Baghdād, XI, 329–30; cf. Diary, No. 162, n. 5.

^{page 10 note 4} Tārīkh Baghdād, XIV, 75.

^{page 10 note 5} ibid., I, 351–2.

^{page 10 note 6} ibid., I, 352–3.

^{page 10 note 7} ibid., xn, 98–9.

^{page 10 note 8} ibid., x, 432–3; Muntaຓam, VIII, 102.

^{page 11 note 1} Tārīkh Baghdād, VIII, 329–30; Abī Ya‘lā, Ibn, Tabaqāt al-hanābila, II, 186–8; listed in Abū Isḥāq ash-Shīrāzī, Tabaqāt al-fuqahā’ (Baghdād, 1356/1937), 147Google Scholar, as Abū Shihāb ‘Alī b. Shihāb al-’Ukbarī.

^{page 11 note 2} Tārīkh Baghdād, XI, 14–15; Tabaqāt al-ḥanābila, II, 179.

^{page 11 note 3} Shīrāzī, Tabaqāt al-fuqahā’, 147, where a brief biographical notice is given of al-Ghubārī.

^{page 11 note 4} Tabaqāt al-hanābila, II, 188.

^{page 11 note 5} Tārīkh Baghdād, n, 256; Tabaqāt al-ḥanābila, II, 193–230; Muntaຓam, VIII, 243–4.

^{page 11 note 6} See Henri Laoust, Essai sur Us doctrines sociales et politiques d’lbn Taimīya, 13, n. 3; the Mukhtaṫar of al-Khiraqī was considered at this time as one of the most important books on Hanbalite fiqh, and several commentaries were written on it. By the time of Yūsuf b. ‘Abd al-Hādī (d. 909/1503), the number of these commentaries had risen, according to the latter, to 300.

^{page 11 note 7} Tārīkh Baghdād, I, 354; Shīrāzī, Tabaqāt al-fuqahā 147; Tabaqāt al-ḥanābila, II, 182.

^{page 12 note 1} Tārīkh Baghdād, IX, 32; fabaqāt al-fuqahā’, 147; Tahaqāt al-ḥanābila, II, 182. Two more names are found among Ibn al-Bannā’'s teachers; they are given by Ibn Abī Ya‘lā (Tabaqāt al-ḥanābila, II, 243): Abū’l-Qāsim al-Ghḥrī and Abḥ Muḥammad as-Sukkarī. The first of these two is somewhat suspect. To begin with, he is not mentioned by Ibn Rajab (cf. Dhail, i, 42). Ibn Abī Ya’lā (op. cit., II, 253) devotes one line to him, in which he gives no date of birth or death, nor any additions to the brief name. Ibn al-Bannā’ himself refers to an ‘Abū’l-Qāsim b. al-Ghၫrī’ in his Diary (No. 87, 1) as one of his informants. Yāqūt (in Mu’jam al-buldān, III, 823) lists an Abū’1-Qāsim Fāris b. Aḥmad b. Mahmūd b. ‘Isā al-Ghūrī, of Baghdād, who died in 348, and his son, Abū’l-Faraj Muḥammad, who died in 409. It is quite possible that the person in question is the son of Abū’l-Faraj, with his grandfather's kunya, Abū’l-Qāsim. But it seems more likely that Abū’l-Qāsim (b.) al-Ghūrī was Ibn al-Bannā’'s friend or acquaintance, judging by the position of the one-line biographical notice devoted to him by Ibn Abī Ya’lā between two obituaries for the years 498 and 499, almost three decades after the death of Ibn al-Bannā,’.

Abū Muṫammad as-Sukkarū is no less difficult to identify, because of the brevity of the name. Two contemporaries of Ibn al-Bannā’ have this kunya-nisba combination. Abū Muhammad b. *Abd al-Jabbār as-Sukkarī is reported by Ibn al-Jauzī (Muntaຓarn, ix, 140) as still living in 414; it is possible then that he was Ibn al-Bannā’'s teacher, whereas Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh b. Aḥmad as-Sukkarī (395–472), teacher of one of Ibn al-Bannā’'s students, appears more likely to have been a friend or acquaintance of Ibn al-Bannā’.

^{page 12 note 2} Dhail, 1, 43.

^{page 12 note 3} cf. Essai sur les doctrines sociales el politiques d’lbn Taimīya, 78.

^{page 12 note 4} Dhail, 1, 46–7.

^{page 12 note 5} In Dhail, I, 44.

^{page 12 note 6} Well-known for his works in Qur’ānic science and for his knowledge of traditions, Ibn al-Munādī was highly regarded by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū’l-Faraj b. al-Jauzi who speaks of having acquired several of his works. Ibn al-Munādī, according to Abū Yūsuf al-Qazwīnī's testimony as given by Ibn al-Jauzī, is supposed to have written no less than 440 works on the Qur’ān, of which Qazwīnī says he knew about 21 and had heard of the rest. Ibn al-Munādī's last disciple to transmit his traditions was Abū’l-Faraj Muḥammad b. Fāris b. al-Ghūrī (320–409) who may have been the father of Abū’l-Qāsim b. al-Ghūrī, mentioned above. On Ibn al-Munādī, see Tārīkh Baghdād, IV 69–70, and Muntaຓam, VI, 357.

^{page 13 note 1} Yāqūt, Irshād, VII, 269–70; Dhail, I, 47.

^{page 13 note 2} cf., for instance, the list given by Henri Laoust in Melanges Maspéro, III, 431ff., and Essai sur les doctrines sociales et politiques d’lbn Taimīya, 483.

^{page 13 note 3} A. Mez, Die Renaissance des Islams, 205 (English translation by S. K. Bukhsh, The renaissance of Islam, 215).

^{page 13 note 4} In Muhammedanische Studien, II, 185–6 (French translation by Léon Bercher, Éitudes sur la tradition islamique, 229–30).

^{page 13 note 5} See Ibn al-Jauzī, Muntaຒam, x, 224–5; cf. Ibn al-Athīr, Kāmil, anno 563.

^{page 14 note 1} 472/5/8 ?–576; GAL, I, 365; Subkī, iv, 43; Kosenthal, A history of Muslim historiography, index, under Aḥmad b. Muḥammad as-Silafī.

^{page 14 note 2} Muntaຓam, ix, 176 (430–507); see Rosenthal, op. cit., 444.

^{page 14 note 3} Muntaຓam, ix, 179; Subkī, iv, 313 (445–507); see Rosenthal, op. cit., 444.

^{page 14 note 4} ibid, 195 and 196.

^{page 14 note 5} Dhail, I, 45; Lisān al-mīzān, II, 195.

^{page 14 note 6} See biographical notice in Subkī, Tabaqāt ash-Shāfi‘īya, iv, 204.

^{page 14 note 7} Muntaຓam, VIII, 319–20; Irskād, VII, 267; Lisān al-mīzān, II, 195; Suyūṭī, Bughyat al-wu’āh fī ṭabaqāt an-naḥwīyīn wa’n-nuḥāh, 216.

^{page 14 note 8} Muntaຓam, VIII, 320; Irshād, VII, 267–8.

^{page 15 note 1} Muntaຓam, x, 224–5.

^{page 15 note 2} cf. also Franz Rosenthal, op. cit., 444, n. 3.

^{page 15 note 3} Muntaāam, VIII, 87.

^{page 15 note 4} Abu’l-Barakāt ‘Abd al-Wahhāb b. al-Mubārak b. Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan al-Anmātī, the ḥadīth expert (462–538), biographical notice in Muntaຓ;am, x, 108–9; very highly regarded by his student Ibn al-Jauzī.

^{page 15 note 5} Abū’1-Faḍl al-Baghdādi (467–550); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, x, 162–3; Ibn al-Jauzī again reprimands Ibn as-Sam ‘ānī for having spoken against Abū’1-Fadl b. Nāsir.

^{page 15 note 6} Muntaຓam, x, 225; cf. ibid, 163, where Ibn al-Jauzī points out in this regard that there is a difference between criticism (jarb) and calumny (ghība).

^{page 15 note 7} Goldziher, op. cit., n, 186; Ibn al-Athīr, Kāmil, anno 563.

^{page 15 note 8} Muntaຓam, VIII, 225; not related by Ibn al-Athīr.

^{page 15 note 9} Ibn al-Jauzī has further criticisms to make against Sam’ānī; cf. ibid

^{page 16 note 1} See Kāmil, anno 563.

^{page 16 note 2} GAL, I, 360, Suppl. I, 613.

^{page 16 note 3} Dhail, I, 45; Suyūṭī, Bughyat al-wu’āh, 216; Lisān al-mĭzān, II, 195.

^{page 16 note 4} Dhail, 1, 45.

^{page 16 note 5} Lisān al-mĭzān, II, 195; cf. the text: for the work mentioned, see list of Ibn al-Bannā’'s works below.

^{page 16 note 6} ibid. The quarrel was recorded again later by Suyūṭĭ, Bughyat al-wu‘āh, 216.

^{page 16 note 7} See the impartial treatment which the quarrel received from Yāqūt, in Irshād, VII, 265 ff.

^{page 17 note 1} Tārĭkh Baghdād, VII, 277; Sam‘ānĭ, Ansāb, fol. 512b without any dates given.

^{page 17 note 2} cf. the name of Ibn al-Bannā’, n. 2, p. 9.

^{page 17 note 3} The ຒāhirĭya Library has two more works of Ibn al-Bannā’ which I noticed a few years ago. See the notes to the list of Ibn al-Bannā’'s works below.

^{page 17 note 4} See biographical notice in Muntaຓam, x, 134–5, Shadharāt, iv, 135; Abū’l-Ma‘ālī Ṣāliḥ b. Shāfi’ al-Jīlī al-Ḥanbalī, student of Ibn ‘Aqīl.

^{page 17 note 5} cf. work No. 24 in the list below.

^{page 17 note 6} This confirms the statement that Ibn al-Bannā‘'s ideas in theology were in conformity with those of his teacher Abū Ya‘lā,; cf. supra.

^{page 18 note 1} Irshād, VII, 268, s.v. al-Ḥasan b. Ahmad al-Muqri’.

^{page 18 note 2} See paragraph No. 35 of Diary. Masjid Ibn Jarada was located on the east side of Baghdād in the precincts of the Caliphal Palace; Ibn Jarada resided in this quarter. Another well-known Ḥanbalite aseetic, Abū Manṣur al-Khaiyat (d. 499) taught the Qur’an to the blind in this masjid for a long period of time; 70, 000 blind students are said to have mastered the Qur’ān under his direction during the sixty odd years of his teaching, and this figure is insisted upon by such historians as Ibn al-Jauzī and Ibn an-Najjār. See Dhail, I, 118–9. Ibn Jarada also built a school for girls and commissioned Abū Ṭālib al-‘Ukbarī (d. 461) to teach them. See Diary, No. 96.

^{page 18 note 3} This appears in a statement attributed to Ibn ‘Aqīl by Ibn Rajab, see Dhail, I, 43.

^{page 18 note 4} Dhail, 1, 42.

^{page 18 note 5} Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥusain b. Muḥammad al-Ḥārithī al-Bakrī ad-Dabbās, known as al-Bāri‘ al-Baghdādī; born in Baghdād in 443; Qur’ānic scholar, he also taught ḥadith to the renowned historian of Damascus, Abū’l-Qāsim b. ‘Asākir (d. 571), and to the historian of Baghdād Ibn al-Jauzū (d. 597); author of Ash-shams al-munūra fi’l-qirā’āt as-sab‘ ash-shahūra (see Kashf aຓຓunūn, VII, 775; cf. Ibn al-Jazarī, Tabaqāt al-qurrā,’, I, 251) and of a diwān of poetry; close friend of poet Ibn al-Habbārīya (d. 509, cf. GAL, I, 252, Suppl., I, 446–7); excerpts of his poetry, in dialogue with Ibn al–Habbārīya, are included in the biographical notice devoted to him by Yāqūt, Irshād (Cairo ed.), x, 147–54, more excerpts in Muntaḥam, x, 17.

^{page 18 note 6} Abū’l-‘Izz Muhammad b. al-Ḥusain b. Bundār al-Qalānisī (435–521); Qur’ānic teacher of wide reputation; accused of Rāfiḍism by ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭū (d. 528), teacher of Ibn al-Jauzū; biographical notices in Muntaຓam, X, 8 (where the nisba ‘al-Miṫrī’ should be amended to read al-Muqri’), Subkī, Tabaqāt ash-shāfi‘īya, iv, 67, Ibn al-‘Imād al-ḥanbalī, Shadharāt, IV, 64.

^{page 18 note 7} Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusain b. ‘Alī ash-Shaibānī al-Mazrafi (439–527); teacher of Ibn an-Nāṫir (d. 550) and Ibn al-Jauzī; praised by Ibn an-Nāṫir as the Qur’ānic scholar of his day; a good biographical notice in Dhail, I, 214–6; see ibid., 215, n. 1, where there is a question as to the nisba al-Mazrafi being al-Mazraqī; this nisba has been spelled out as ‘al-Mazrafi’ in Yāqūt, Mu’jam al-buldān, iv, 52, whereas both Sam‘ānī, Ansāb, fol. 526a, and Ibn al-‘Imād al-Ḥanbalī, Shadharāt, iv, 82, spell it out as ‘al-Mazraqī’; Sam‘ānī locates the town five miles west of Baghdād; Yāqūt locates it three leagues away from Baghdād, and he and Ibn al-‘Imād place it to the north; both Yāqūt and Sam‘ānū speak of it as a deserted place.

^{page 18 note 8} Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muhammad b. Abū’l-Futūh b. ‘Abd Allāh b. Ḥumaid al-Ḥumaidī al-Andalusī (before 420–488); al-Ḥumaidī studied under the direction of Abū Bakr al-Khatib and was greatly influenced by him; he was also a friend of the traditionalist Ibn Mākūlā (d. 475); studied under the Ḥāhirite Ibn Ḥazm (d. 456), travelled extensively and died in Baghdād; cf. GAL, I, 338, Suppl., I, 578–9; Muntaຓam, ix, 96; Ansāb, fol. 177b.

^{page 19 note 1} Abū Ghālib Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. ‘Abd Allāh b. al-Bannā’ (445-527); a teacher of hadīth to Ibn al-Jauzī; biographical notice in Muntaຓam, X, 31 (modification of the name in the Ḥaidarabad edition is based on faulty sources); mentioned in Dhail, 1, 42, in his father's biography as one of his students of hadīth.

^{page 19 note 2} Abū ‘Abd Allāh Yaḥya b. al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. ‘Abd Allāh b. al-Bannā’ (453–531); learned hadīth from his father and was in turn a teacher of ḥadīth to Ibn ‘Asākir and Ibn al-Jauzī Sam ‘ānī related traditions on his authority by ijāza; biographical notice in Dhail, I, 226–8.

^{page 19 note 3} Abū ‘)-Husain Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Farrā’ (451–526); student of his father, Qāḍ Abū Ya‘lā (d. 458), in ḥadīth and of Sharīf Abū Ja‘far (d. 471) in fiqh; author of many works, one of which was the recently published Tabaqāt al-Ḥanābila (ed. MuḤāmmad Ḥāmid al-Fiqī, 1952, 2vols.).

^{page 19 note 4} Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Bāqī b. Muḥammad b. ‘Abd Allah al-Bāzzāz, known as Qādī'l-Māristān (442–535); see biographical notice in Dhail, I, 230–7.

^{page 19 note 5} Abū'l-Qāsim Hibat Allāh b. Muḥammad ash-Shaibānī (432–525); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, x, 24. Ibn al-Jauzī writes that he learned under his direction the whole of Ahmad b. Ḥanbal's Musnad as well as another ḥadīth collection entitled al-Ghailānīyāt. The information on this collection (studied by Ibn Taimīya) in GAL, Suppl. I, 121, needs to be amended: it is attributed to Abū Bakr Muhammad b. ‘Abd Allāh b. Ibrāhīm (died in 354, instead of 359, biographical notices, Tārīkh Baghdād, v, 456–8; Muntaຓam, VII, 32), whereas it should be attributed to Abū Bakr MuḤammad b. ‘Abd Allāh b. Ghailān al-Khazzūz (d. 322), biographical notice in Tārīkh Baghdād, v, 445–6. Ibn al-Jauzī studied the collection under Abū'l-Qāsim b. al-Ḥusain who in turn studied it under Abū Tālib b. Ghailān (346, 7, 8 ?–440, biographical notices in Tārīkh Baghdād, in, 234–5; Muntaຓam, VIII, 139–40). But the Ghailānīyāt could not be attributed to Abū Ṭālib b. Ghailān, since it had been published by ad-Dāraquṭnī (306–385) who had died before him, and who was a disciple of Abū Bakr b. Ghailān; cf. Muntaຓam, VIII, 140, where Ibn al-Jauzī writes:

^{page 19 note 6} Abū'l-Qāsim Ismā‘īl b. Ahmad b. ‘Umar as-Samarqandī (454–536); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, X, 98 (for the correction in the name, see also the biographical notice of his father Abū Bakr Aḥmad (d. 489), ibid., IX, 98); teacher of Ibn al-Jauzĭ; see also Subkī, Tabaqāt ash-shāfi‘īya, where the date of his death is given as 538.

^{page 19 note 7} Abū Naṫr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Bannā’ (434–510); biographical notice in Dhail, 1, 142–3; eldest son of Ibn al-Bannā’ under whose direction he studied ḥadīth and fiqh, and whom he succeeded in his two study circles in Jāmi‘ al-Qaṫr and Jāmi‘ al-Manṫūr.

^{page 19 note 8} Abū'l-Qāsim ‘Ubaid Allāh b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusain al-Farrā’ (443–469); eldest son of Qādī Abū Ya‘lā; travelled extensively in search of traditions, but died at the early age of 26 on his way to Mekka; biographical notices in Tabaqāt al-hanābila, II, 235–6 and in Dhail, 1, 16–17.

^{page 19 note 9} Died 511; see biographical notice in Muntaຓam, ix, 196.

^{page 19 note 10} Died 514; see biographical notice, ibid., 219.

^{page 19 note 11} Died 545; biographical notices in Ansāb, fol. 134b, and Muntaຓam, x, 144; freedman of Shaikh Abū ‘Abd Allāh b. Jarada (see index, to be printed in the final part of this study); both Ibn al-Jauzī and Sam ‘ānī studied ḥadīth under his direction.

^{page 19 note 12} Died 506; biographical notice in Dhail, I, 36.

^{page 19 note 13} 462–546; biographical notice in Muntaຓam, x, 145-6; teacher of ḥadīth to Ibn al-Jauzī.

^{page 20 note 1} The number is given as 150 in Muntaຓam, VIII, 319, and Irshāad, VIII, 266; in Dhail, I, 43, the number is given as ‘over 300’ according to Ibn Shāfī’, and (ibid., 44) 500 according to Muntaīam; the latter number appears to be due to a copyist who read Ibn al-Jauzī's as The error is repeated by some of the later biographers of Ibn al-Banns4_inline-3,’.

^{page 20 note 2} Dhail, 1, 45–6.

^{page 20 note 3} Listed also by Ibn Badrs4_inline-3n, in his Madkhal ilā midhhab al-Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (Damascus, n.d.), 216. For al-Khiraqī (d. 334), see GAL, I, 183, Suppl., I, 311. His Mukhtaṫar fi'l-fiqh is reported to have had as many as 300 commentaries, cf. n. 6, p. 11. An excerpt of Ibn al-Bannā’'s commentary will be found in Dhail, I, 46.

^{page 20 note 4} An excerpt is given by Ibn Rajab, ibid. It is probably a commentary on the work of his teacher of fiqh, Qāḍī Abū Ya‘lā, entitled al-Mujarrad fi'l-madhhab, see Ibn Abī Ya‘lā, Tabaqāt al-ḥanābila, II, 205. Cf. Ibn Badrān, Madkhal, 206, who attributes to Ibn al-Bannā’ a Kitāb al-mujarrad fi’l-fiqh.

^{page 20 note 5} Excerpt in Dhail, I, 52–3.

^{page 20 note 6} Abū Muḥammad (Abū ‘Abd Allāh ?) Ḥarb b. Ismā‘īl al-Kirmānū (d. 288), disciple of Ahmad b. Ḥanbal, see Ibn Abī Ya‘lā, Tabaqāt al-ḥabānila, I, 145–6; Sam‘ānī, Ansāb, fol. 480a; Yāqūt, Mu‘jam al-buldān, III, 213, vi, 377; Ibn Badrān, Madkhal, 206. For this work of al-Kirmānī, see Ibn an-Nadām, Fihrist (Cairo ed.), 439.

^{page 20 note 7} This is a commentary on the ‘Aqīda in verse by ‘Abd Allāh b. Abī Dāwūd (230–316), son of Abū Dāwūd, author of the Sunan. The ‘Aqīda is given in the biographical notice devoted to him by Ibn Abī Ya‘lā, in Tabaqāt al-hanābila, II, 51–5; several variants are to be noted in comparison with the edition given in ‘Ashr rasā'il wa-‘aqa’id salafiya (ed. Muḥammad Aḥmad ‘Abd as-Salām, Cairo 1351/1932), 16–17. See also GAL, Suppl., I, 267.

^{page 20 note 8} cf. al-Jauzī, Ibn, Manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (ed. al-Khānjī, Muḥammad Amīn, Cairo, 1349/1930Google Scholar), 435 ff. (chapter: ‘Dhikru’1-manāmāti 'llatī ru'iya fīhā Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal’), where Ibn al-Bannā’ is cited abundantly in the isnāds.

^{page 21 note 1} Kaskf aຓ-ຓunūn, III, 444–5; Lisān al-mīzān, 195; cf. Diary, No. 130, 3; Sakhāwī, I‘lān, transl. F. Rosenthal in A history of Muslim historiography, 217; cf. ibid., the interesting remark of Sakhāwī concerning the alleged desire of Ibn al-Bannā’ (found in several of the biographies cited in n. 2, p. 9) to have been mentioned by al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādi in the latter's History.

^{page 21 note 2} Kashf aຒ-ຒunūn, IV, 149; used by the historian of Baghdād, Ibn an-Najjār (d. 643), see Subkī, Tabaqāt ash-shāfi'īya, III, 51; and by Ibn Rajab, see Dhail, I, 206.

^{page 21 note 3} It is by this title that Ibn Rajab refers to the present Diary, cf. Dhail, I, 10. The other parts of the Diary are lost. Two excerpts of what I believe to be other parts of the Diary, known to Ibn al-Jauzī but not to Ibn Rajab, will be found in Muntaຓam, VIII, 248–9, and 316. See below, pp. 26–7.

^{page 21 note 4} In the ຒāhirīya Library in Damascus.

^{page 21 note 5} cf. Ibn al-Jauzī's book by the same title (cf. n. 2, p. 9), where Ibn al-Bannā’ is cited frequently. Other works on Manāqib Aḥmad b. ḥanbal: one by the great Ḥanbalite mystic al-Harawī al-Anṫārī (d. 481), cited in his work Dhamm al-kalām, British Museum MS. 1571, fols. 106b and 109a, listed by Ibn Rajab in Dhail, I, 66; another by the Ḥanbalite traditionalist Yaḥyā b. Manda (d. 511), excerpts of which will be found in Dhail, I, 56, 125, and 156.

^{page 21 note 6} Qāḍī Abū Ya‘lā b. al-Farrā’ al-Ḥanbalī (d. 458), the author's teacher.

^{page 21 note 7} It is perhaps a work such as this one that Ibn Shāfi‘ had in mind when he praised Ibn al-Bannā’ for works which he had written with a view to eflFecting a rapprochement between the two Schools; see Dhail, I, 43.

^{page 21 note 8} Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad al-Fārisī (d. 377); see GAL, I, 113–4, Suppl., I, 175–6, where other commentaries are cited. For this commentary by Ibn al-Bannā,’, see Suyūtī, Bughyat al-wu‘āh, 216; Yāqūt, Irshād, VII, 266, where Yāqūt states he has seen it, and Ḥājjī Khalifa, Kashf aຓ-ຓunūn, I, 512, where the nisba ‘al-Miṫrī’ attributed to Ibn al-Bannā’ should be amended to ‘al-Muqri’'.

^{page 21 note 9} Abū ‘Ubaid al-Qāsim b. Sallām (d. 223–/837–8), GAL, I, 107, Suppl., I, 166, Ibn an-Nadīm, Fihrist (Cairo ed.), 129. See Diary, No. 184, 2. There is a work attributed to him in the ຒahiriya Library in Damascus with an autograph of the Ḥanbalite Yūsuf b. ‘Abd al-Hādī (d. 909; GAL, II, 107, Suppl., II, 947), entitled Kitāb ar-radd ‘alā 'l-mubtadi‘a.

^{page 22 note 1} See al- ‘Ishsh, Yūsuf, Fihris makhṭutāt dār al-hutub aຒ-ຓāhirīya (Damascus, 1947), 156–7;Google ScholarGAL, II, 2, 669 (in ‘Nachträge und Berichtigungen’).

^{page 22 note 2} Died 636; cf. F. Rosenthal, A history of Muslim historiography, 445, n. 7; Bidaya, XIII, 153, grandfather of historian ‘Alam ad-Dīn al-Birzālī; Ibn al-‘Imād makes him the latter's father, Shadharāt, v, 182.

^{page 22 note 3} al-Jazarī al-Faqīh al-ฤanbalī (d. 610); a biographical notice in Shadharāt, v, 44.

^{page 22 note 4} Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muลammad b. Isลāq b. Manda (d. 395) biographical notice in Ibn Abī Ya‘lā, Ṭabaqāt al-ลanābila, II, 167; cf. F. Kosenthal, op. cit., 328, n. 1.

^{page 22 note 5} cf. EI, art. Lammens, s.v. ‘Kuss Ibn Sā‘ida’.

^{page 22 note 6} Died 387; see GAL, Suppl., I, 360, where this item is cited, but without specification of juz’; cf. item 14.

^{page 22 note 7} Died 456–7–9, a biographical notice in Sam‘ānī, Ansāb, s.v. ‘Ustughdādīzī’, fol. 31a, line 6; cf. Yāqūt, Mu‘jam al-buldān, I, 243; cf. GAL, Suppl., I, 565, line 27.

^{page 22 note 8} Perhaps Abū Bakr Aลmad b. Salmān an-Najjād (d. 348); Sam‘ānī, Ansāb, fol. 553a; Ibn al-Jauzī, Muntaຓam, vi, 390.

^{page 22 note 9} Abū Ḥafs ‘Umar b. Aḥmad b. Shāhīn (d. 385); for the author, see GAL, I, 165, Suppl., I, 276; the work cited here is listed in GAL, II, 2, 664 (‘Nachträge und Berichtigungen’).

^{page 22 note 10} Taqī 'd-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Ghanī b. ‘Abd al-Wāḥid al-Jammā‘īlī al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī (d. 600); for the author, see GAL, I, 356, Suppl., I, 605.

^{page 23 note 1} In 3 juz’'s; no external indication of authorship.

^{page 23 note 2} Perhaps Abū'l-Laith Naṡr b. Muḥammad as-Samarqandī (d. c. 373), GAL, I, 195–6; or the Shāfi‘ite traditionalist Abū'l-Qāsim Ismā‘īl b. Aḥmad b. as-Samarqandi (d. 536–8), Muntaຓam, x, 98, Subkī, iv, 204.

^{page 23 note 3} For the work, see GAL, Suppl., II (Anhang), 912, where it is listed, but without specification of juz’. For a biographical notice of Abū ‘Alī Muḥammad b. al-Qāsim b. Ma’ruf, whose nisba's are listed as at-Tamīmī ad-Dimashqī al-Akhbārī (d. 347), see Ibn al-‘Imād al-Ḥanbalī, Shadharāt, II, 376; his teacher Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. ‘Alī al-Marwazi (Tārīkh Baghdād, iv, 303), was accused of forging traditions, and the disciple was accused of plagiarizing the teacher's works.

^{page 23 note 4} The present Diary.

^{page 23 note 5} cf. item 5, above.

^{page 23 note 6} The historian of Damascus, Ibn ‘Asākir (d. 571); compiled several Arba‘ūn works, some of which are cited in Ḥājjī Khalīfa, Kashf aຓ-ຓunūn, I, 232 ff.; cf. GAL, I, 331.

^{page 24 note 1} GAL, I, 398–9, Suppl., I, 690. For a history of the school and its founder see ‘Abd al-Qādir b. Muḥammad an-Nu‘aimī, Ad-dāris fī tārīkh al-madāris (ed. Ja‘far al-Ḥinnī, Damascus, 1370/ 1951), II, 91 ff.

^{page 24 note 2} cf. ibid, 91 (line 5 from bottom), where Ḍiyā’ ad-din is called the founder (bānī) of the school, and ibid, 94, last line, where he is called its dedicator in waqf (wāqif aḍ-Ǭiyā’īya).

^{page 25 note 1} cf. the remarks of Claude Cahen, ‘La Chronique d’al-‘Aຓīmī’, JA, ccxxx, 1938, 356. For the later sources on the earthquake, see Diary, No. 11, n. 1.

^{page 25 note 3} So also does the much later historian Yāfi‘ī, Mir‘at al-janān, III, 100, where he speaks of Ibn al-Bannā’ as:

^{page 25 note 3} Dhail, I, 10.

^{page 26 note 1} See Diary, No. 56. On Ibn Rajab's use of the Diary, see below.

^{page 26 note 2} cf. Dhail, I, 11, and Diary, No. 66.

^{page 26 note 3} cf. Dhail, 1, 29, and Muntaຓam, VIII, 316.

^{page 26 note 4} Muntaຓam, VIII, 248–9.

^{page 27 note 1} cf. Dhail, I, 24–5, and Muntaຓam, loc. cit.

^{page 27 note 2} For the source of this last obituary which was not taken from the Diary, cf. Ṭabaqāt alḥanābila, II, 231–2.

^{page 27 note 3} cf. Jamīla al-‘Ajjā (Diary, No. 12), al-Hamadhānī (No. 13), Abū’1-Fatḥ b. Qurraiq (?) (No. 15), an-Najjād al-Ḥanbalī (No. 26), Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Qaṡṡār (No. 36), al-Āmidī (No. 67), Abū Ṭālib al-‘Ukbarī (No. 96), ‘Uthmā al-Khaiyāḝ (No. 119), Abū’l-Ḥusain b. aḝ Ṭuyūrī(No. 123).

^{page 28 note 1} See Diary, No. 15, n. 2.

^{page 28 note 2} Dhail, 1, 174.

^{page 29 note 1} See Diary, No. 17, n. 3.

^{page 29 note 2} cf. Massignon, Recueil de textes inédits, 92.

^{page 31 note 1} cf. some of the more obvious cases: the niece of Abū Ṭāhir b. an-Narsī (No. 70); the daughter of the son- (or brother-)in-law of Hiba(No. 71); Ibn aṡ-Ṣaiyād, husband of the daughter of Ibn as-Sunni, and employee of Ibn Jarada (No. 104); the mother of al-Khaiyāḝ (No. 149); the wife of the merchant Ibn ‘Umar (No. 171); the butcher Abū Raqba(?) (No. 185); etc.

Article contents

Autograph Diary of an Eleventh-Century Historian of Baghdād—I

Extract

Access options

References

Save article to Kindle

Save article to Dropbox

Save article to Google Drive

Reply to: Submit a response

Your details

You have entered the maximum number of contributors

Conflicting interests