قوام السنة إسماعيل التيمي

قوام السنة إسماعيل التيمي

تقریباً 1064 عیسوی · 457 ھ – تقریباً اگست 1140 عیسوی · ذوالحجہ 535 ھ

أصفهان

The great hafiz Qawam al-Sunna Abu al-Qasim Ismail ibn Muhammad al-Taymi al-Talhi of Isfahan; Abu Musa al-Madini calls him 'imam of the imams of his time, teacher of its scholars, exemplar of the Sunna' — struck mute in Safar 534 then paralysed; imam in tafsir, hadith, language and adab, master of texts and isnads, who dictated nearly three thousand sessions at Isfahan's mosque; his works: the thirty-volume tafsir al-Jami', al-Idah, al-Mawdih, the ten-volume Mu'tamad, a Persian tafsir, al-Targhib wa'l-tarhib, commentaries on both Sahihs (finished by his son), Dala'il al-nubuwwa and the thirty-part Tadhkira; Baghdad's imams said none better-versed nor more retentive had journeyed to Baghdad after Ahmad ibn Hanbal; b. 457, d. the morning of Eid al-Adha 535 ¹.