Ibn Batish

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Ibn Bāṭīsh (June 1179 – June 1257) was a Muslim scholar and jurist belonging to the

muftī of Aleppo
from 1230 until his death.

Life

Ibn Bāṭīsh,

al-Dimyāṭī.[9]

Ibn Bāṭīsh excelled in

adab (belles-lettres) and ḥadīth (Islamic traditions).[2] He returned to Mosul and served the Madrasa al-Badriyya as a muʿīd (repetitor).[2]

Ibn Bāṭīsh visited Aleppo in 1205 or 1206 and met the

Shams al-Dīn Luʾluʾ al-Amīnī, a fellow native of Mosul. He remained in Aleppo for the rest of his life, living with Shams al-Dīn, who relied heavily on his advice and was, after 1236, one of the most powerful people in Aleppo until his death in 1251.[2]

In 1230,

fatwā) in Aleppo until his death.[2]

Ibn Bāṭīsh died between 16 and 25 June 1257.

Ibn Khallikān's[d] Wafayāt and in Ibn al-ʿAdīm's biographical dictionary of Aleppo.[2] The most complete list of his writings is found in the ʿUqūd al-Jumān of Ibn Shaʿʿār. A list of his teachers is provided by al-Ḥusaynī.[7]

Works

Ibn Bāṭīsh's known works, all in Arabic, include:

  • Ṭabaqāt aṣḥāb al-Shāfiʿī,
    ṭabaqāt (chronological biographical dictionary) of the Shāfiʿī maddhab[13]
  • Mushtabih al-nisba, a lost work on easily confused nisbas[2][4]
  • Nukhba min mushtabih al-nisba, a condensed version of the Mushtabih, surviving in a single damaged manuscript[14]
  • Mughnī fī al-inbāʾ ʿan gharīb al-muhadhdhab wal-asmāʾ,
    Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī"[3]
  • Ghayāt al-Wasāʾil Ilā Maʿrifat al-Awāʾil[1]
  • Tamyīz wal-faṣl bayn al-muttafiq fī al-khaṭṭ wal-naqṭ wal-shakl, a five-volume work only the last two volumes of which are extant. It is a biographical dictionary arranged by nisba.[16]
  • Sharb al-Tanbīh, a lost commentary on the Tanbīh of Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī[17]
  • Muzīl al-irtiyāb ʿan mushtabih al-intisāb, a lost work, possibly on geography or biographies organized by nisba[18]
  • Fayṣal fī mushtabih asmāʾ al-buldān, a lost geographical treatise[19]
  • a commentary on the work of Abū Isḥāq al-Fayrūzabādī, title unknown.[2]

The Ṭabaqāt was used as a source by al-Asnawī, al-Subkī and Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba. It is as yet unpublished.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ His full name as he himself gives it is Abū al-Majd Ismāʿīl ibn Abī al-Barakāt Hibatallāh Abū al-Riḍā Saʿīd ibn Hibatallāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Hibatallāh ibn Muḥammad al-Mawṣilī al-Faqīh al-Shāfiʿī.[1] It is often given in reduced form: Ibn Bāṭīsh al-Mawṣilī,[2] Imād al-Dīn Abū l-Majd Ismāʿīl ibn Hibatallāh ibn Saʿīd ibn Bāṭīsh,[3] or Abū Majd Ismāʿīl ibn Hibatallāh al-Mawṣilī al-Shāfiʿī Ibn Bāṭīsh.[4] The meaning of the kunya Ibn Bāṭīsh is unknown and he himself did not use it. Medieval authors disagree as to whether it was a nickname or a part of his family name, i.e., "descendant of Bāṭīsh".[5] The author al-Dimyāṭī refers to Ibn Bāṭīsh's brother as Ibn Bāṭīsh also, implying that their father was named (or nicknamed) Bāṭīsh.[6]
  2. al-Yūnīnī gives 14 June 1179.[1]
  3. ^ This may have been his first visit,[2] or he may have studied there earlier.[3]
  4. ^ Ibn Khallikān was one of his students.[3]
  5. al-Ṣafadī. The work is described but not titled in Ibn al-ʿAdīm.[2] The title also appears as Ṭabaqāt al-shāfiʿīya[4] and Ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ al-Shāfiʿiyya.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c al-Māniʿ 1976, p. 49.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Morray 1994, pp. 63–65.
  3. ^ a b c d e Mac Guckin de Slane 1842, p. 187n.
  4. ^ a b c d Böwering & Orfali 2013, p. 12.
  5. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, p. 50.
  6. ^ a b al-Māniʿ 1976, p. 51.
  7. ^ a b al-Māniʿ 1976, p. 48.
  8. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, p. 52.
  9. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, p. 53.
  10. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, p. 68.
  11. ^ Suyuti 1881, p. 503.
  12. ^ a b al-Māniʿ 1976, p. 88.
  13. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, pp. 88–92.
  14. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, pp. 93–96.
  15. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, pp. 77–83, discusses it under the title al-Mughnī fī sharḥ gharīb al-muhadhdhab wa-lughatihi wa-asmāʾ rijālihi.
  16. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, pp. 83–86.
  17. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, pp. 92–93.
  18. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, pp. 86–87.
  19. ^ al-Māniʿ 1976, p. 93.

Works cited

  • Böwering, Gerhard; Orfali, Bilal, eds. (2013). The Comfort of the Mystics: A Manual and Anthology of Early Sufism. Brill.
  • Jalalu'ddin a's Suyuti (1881). History of the Caliphs. Translated by H. S. Jarrett. Calcutta.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Mac Guckin de Slane, William, ed. (1842). Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1. Paris.
  • al-Māniʿ, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Nāṣir [in Arabic] (1976). An Edition of Ghayāt al-Wasāʾil Ilā Maʿrifat al-Awāʾil by Ismāʿīl b. Hibat Allāh al-Mawṣilī, Known as Ibn Bāṭīsh (575–655/1179–1257) (PhD diss.). University of Exeter.
  • Morray, David W. (1994). An Ayyubid Notable and his World: Ibn al-ʿAdīm and Aleppo as Portrayed in his Biographical Dictionary of People Associated with the City. Brill.
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