Ṣafwān ibn Idrīs

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Ṣafwān ibn Idrīs or Abū Baḥr al-Tujībī (1164/6–1202), full name Abū Baḥr Ṣafwān ibn Idrīs ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĪsā ibn Idrīs al-Tujībī al-Mursī al-Kātib, was a Muslim

Almohads.[1]

Life

Ṣafwān was born in

ḥadīth) when he was only seventeen years old. He also studied under the prominent Murcian Abu ʾl-Qāsim Ibn Ḥubaysh; under Abu ʾl-Walīd ibn Rushd, the grandfather of the famous philosopher Ibn Rushd; and under the vizier Abū Rijāl ibn Ghalbūn.[1][4]

In the Zād, Ṣafwān gives a list of his other teachers: Abū Bakr ibn Mughāwir, Abu ʾl-Ḥasan Ibn al-Qāsim, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥumayd, Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ḥajarī, Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥawṭ Allāh and Ibn ʿAyshūn. Besides poetry and ḥadīth, Ṣafwān was regarded as an expert in adab (etiquette).[1] His closest friend was Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥāmid (died 1223/4), the vizier of the Caliph al-ʿĀdil.[4] His most famous student was Abu ʾl-Rabīʿ ibn Sālim al-Kalāʿī.[1]

According to his biographers, Ṣafwān travelled to

Muḥammad. Subsequently, Muḥammad appeared to al-Manṣūr in a dream and spoke on behalf of Ṣafwān, whose financial difficulties were promptly addressed by the caliph. Although he had a daughter of marriageable age, Ṣafwān was not yet 40 years old at his death.[1] He died in Murcia on 8[2] or 9 July 1202 and was buried next to the mosque of al-Jurf.[3] His father said the prayer at his funeral.[1]

Writings

Ṣafwān wrote at least thirteen works.[2] These include:

  1. Kitāb al-Riḥla[1]
  2. Badāhat al-mutaḥaffiz wa-ʿujālat al-mustawfiz, an anthology of his own works in both prose and verse[1]
  3. Zād al-musāfir wa-ghurrat muḥayyā ʾl-adab al-sāfir, an anthology with biographical notices of 12th-century Andalusian and Maghribian poets supplementing the works of
    Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī, who included a biography of Ṣafwān.[1]
  4. Among his surviving rasāʾil (letters) are ones to the qāḍī Abu ʾl-Qāsim ibn Bakī and the emir ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn ʿAlī. He also maintained a correspondence with the poet Muḥammad ibn Idrīs ibn Marj al-Kuḥl.[1] Many of his letters are preserved in the collection of Aḥmad al-Balawī, al-ʿAṭāʾ al-jazīl.[6]
  5. Selections of his poetry (
    al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī and the descendants of Muḥammad are most famous.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Fierro 1995.
  2. ^ a b c FITEA 2017.
  3. ^ a b Alubudi 1993–1994, p. 211.
  4. ^ a b c Alubudi 1993–1994, p. 212.
  5. ^ Castro León 2020, p. 407.
  6. ^ Alubudi 1993–1994, p. 213.

Sources

  • Alubudi, Jasim (1993–1994). "Dos viajes inéditos de Ṣafwān b. Idrīs". Sharq Al-Andalus. 10–11: 211–243.
  • Castro León, Víctor de (2020). "Historiography and geography". In Maribel Fierro (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia. Routledge. pp. 398–424.
  • "Ibn Idris al-Tuyibi, Safwan". Fundación Ibn Tufayl de Estudios Árabes. 24 August 2017.
  • Fierro, Maribel (1995). "Ṣafwān b. Idrīs". In
    ISBN 978-90-04-09834-3
    .

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