A modern version of the book in 15 vol.
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Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi, also known as Shams ad-Din Abu Abdillah Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Uthman ibn Qaymaz ibn Abdillah at-Turkumani al-Fariqi ad-Dimashqi (1274 – 1348) was a Syrian Islamic historian and Hadith expert born in Damascus. Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir: Great History of Islam comprising over 30,000 biographical records. Siyar a’lam al-nubala (The Lives of Noble Figures), an encyclopedia of biographical history. He has some anecdotes and some hadith on the Zanj.
Taken from: الموسوعة الشاملة - تاريخ الإسلام islamport.com
Original name and author: كتاب تاريخ الإسلام ط التوفيقية by الذهبي، شمس الدين
P1321
He said: He narrated on the authority of Amr bin Maimun, on the authority of Al-Zuhri (2), on the authority of Urwah (3), on the authority of Aisha (4), with a chain of transmission traceable to the Prophet: The negro if he is hungry steals, and if he is full, he commits adultery (15), but they also have forgiveness and grace.
P2121
Abu Maeshar (16)….
He was the ultimate in the art of astrology…..
Categories: The Book of the Zinj, The Introduction, The Thousands….
P3326
And he said: I heard Abu Ghalib Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mawardi (5) says: Abu Hassan came to us in the year sixty-nine, and he heard the Sunan (17) from Abu Ali Tastari, and he stayed with him for about two years, then he went to Oman, and I met him in Mecca in the year seventy-three. He told me that he went by sea to the land of Zinj, where he went too them with his knowledge, and they learned grammar. He said: There is where you can earn thousands of (dinars)(18), it has happened to me for about a thousand dinars, and then I departed from them.
Then he came back to Basra to reside in, and when he arrived to the door of Basra he started using the camel again, and he died after returning from a pilgrimage.
P3926
To the caliph was send by Nur al-Din, a donkey made as a garment, and people came out of their work to see it. There was a man among them, who wore atapi suits, he was a fool, minus virtue. A man said: If he sent us a donkey, we have already a donkey.
Taken from: الموسوعة الشاملة - تاريخ الإسلام للذهبي islamport.com
Vol12 p213
(about Ahmed bin Abi Al-Fadael bin Abi Al-Majd bin Abi Al-Maali.)
….he accepted the request (of teaching) in the year six hundred twenty-two. (1225 AD)
……He had Mamluks (6) of the Turkish sailors who had heard about him. Then he entered India and settled forever. And his method is well-known among the modernists. And he lived to this time, and I do not know when he died, but the jurist Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ali Al-Maqdashawi heard from him in the year seventy. And he told us about him .....
Note: as we are talking here about India the Maqdashu talked about might be the one from India
Vol15 p916
Abd al-Rahim Ibn al-Wazir Saffy al-Din Ibrahim ibn Heba Allah ibn Abdullah ibn Marzuq, al-Asqalani, al-Tajir, (a merchant), al Safar (a traveler). [Deceased: 699 AH-1300AD] He heard this from Karima, Al-Sakhawi and Jamaa, and authorized by Al-Barzali. He died in Muqadashha.
Siyar A'lam al-Nubala: (The lives of prominent personalities)
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Taken from: Alwaraq
Abu Obeid said: I said to my father David, hadith from Hisham ibn Urwa (7) from his father from Aisha (4): Beware of Zinj
they are a distorted creation (24), he said, this is a point of this fatwah.
Taken from: Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms. Festschrift for Wolihart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday
Presented by his Students and Colleagues by Beatrice Gruendler, Michael Cooperson.
Ibn Rushd (8) remarked that he had seen a giraffe belonging to the king of the berbers. This way of referring to the king
was taken by some people as an insult, and it instigated them to question Ibn Rushd’s orthodoxy with the ruler by
showing him, in Ibn Rushd’s (8) handwriting, a remark about the veneration of the
planet Venus. This led to Ibn Rushd’s (8)
banishment.
Talkhis kitab al Mawdueat liaibn al Jawzi.
(Summarizing the book of topics of Ibn al-Jawzi)
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Taken from: تلخيص كتاب الموضوعات by الذهبي، شمس الدين al-maktaba.org
P219-220
Hadith 544: Concerning the Sudan; the black comes from the belly and the vulva.
Hadith 545: The Zanj; when full commits adultery (15), and when hungry steals, they also forgive and are helpful.
From: Amr ibn Maimon (1), from Al Zahri, from Erwatin, from Aisha (4) under the title: the Zanj is a donkey.
Hadith 546: beware of the
Zinj; they are a distorted creation. (24)
Hadith 547: Abyssinia give the most beautiful people take them [and try them] they are the strongest thing.
Hadith 548: He saw food, he said: For whom is this? Abbas said: To feed the Abyssinians. Do not;
if they are hungry they
steal, and they are full they commit adultery. (15)
Al-Dhahabi: Mizan al-i’tidal. (The balance of moderation) (d1348)
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Taken from: alwaraq.net ميزان الاعتدال by الذهبي
4204 ….. Ibn Habban (9) said: …… that the Prophet Peace be upon him forbade the sacrifices of the jinn and the
sacrifices of the Zinj. The meaning of the jinn sacrifices is said to be that if they bought a house they sacrificed
(slaughtered) so as not to harm them from the jinn.
Al-Dhahabi: al'Amsar Dhuwwat al-Athar. (Amaras with effects) (d1348)
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Taken from: masaha.org/book/view/4754 الأمصار ذوات الآثار by محمد بن أحمد الذهبي
In this geographical text all countries and places are mentioned with added what is important in that place. As to East Africa: nothing as added, just like for many other little known places.
And Crimea (10), and Bilad Al-Takrur (11),
And Abyssinia, Nuba, Al-Bajah (12), Zinj, and to Aswan (13)
And Hadramout (14), Bahrain, and so on.
Al-Dhahabi: Kitab al-Mushtabah fi 'Asma' al-Rijal.
(The book of suspected men's names) (d1348) Damascus
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Taken from: كتاب المشتبه في أسماء الرجال: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Dhahabī, Pieter Jong · 1881
[Al-Maqdishi] The jurist Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ali bin Abi Bakr Al-Maqdishi (22), teaching in the Al-Bathari School with Sheikh Alaa Al-Din Al-Maqdisi, and it is said that Al-Maqdishawi narrated to us on the authority of Ibn Al-Dakhmisi (19) and Al-Muqqari Abu Abd Al-Rahman (20), and Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Al-Muqari (21), ... .
Al-Dhahabi: Mu‘jam al-Shuyukh al-Kabir.
(Greater Dictionary of Teachers) (d1348) Damascus
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Taken from: https://banadirwiki.com/the-banadir-jurist-and-scholar-sh-muhammad-ibn-ali-bin-abi-bar-al-maqdishawi-648-1250-718-1318/ معجم الشيوخ_الذهبي - 2
Muhammad bin Ali bin Abi Bakr, the jurist and scholar Shams al-Din al-Tamimi Al-Maqdishawi Al-Fali Al-Shafi’I (22), teacher of Al-Bathariyya. It was narrated on the authority of Al-Kamal Ibn Al-Dakhamisi (19) that he met him in the Roman lands and heard about Iraq from Ibn Osama, and settled in Damascus until he died in Dhul-Qa’dah (23) in the year seven hundred and eighteen [718 AH - 1318 AD] at the age of seventy years. He performed the Hajj several times.
(1) Amr ibn Maimon: d694 one of the narrators Prophetic hadith.
(2) Al-Zuhri: (671-741) ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, was an Arab jurist and traditionist who development hadith literature.
(3) Urwah: (680-763) Hisham ibn Urwah was a prominent narrator of hadith.
(4) Aisha: (614-678) was Muhammad's third and youngest wife.
(5) Abu Ghalib Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mawardi: famous hadith teacher of the 5th-6th century AH. As he speaks about the years 69 and 73 this must be 469AH and 473AH.
(6) Mamluks: literally: "one who is owned", meaning "slave".
(7) Hisham ibn Urwa: (680-763) Hisham ibn Urwah was a prominent narrator of hadith.
(8) Ibn Rushd: see my webpage: Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (1160)
(9) Ibn Habban: Sahih Ibn Hibban is a collection of hadith by Sunni scholar Ibn Hibban.
(10) Crimea: peninsula along the northern coast of the Black Sea.
(11) Bilad Al-Takrur: at the border between Senegal and Mauretania. Already mentioned by al Bakri in 1067.
(12) Al-Bajah: Bedjah, Bedjneh, Beeljah : Beja people from Sudan. The Egyptians leaving from Aswan; the southern border town on the Nile; have to cross their territory to reach the harbours on the Red Sea.
(13) Aswan: the southern border town of Egypt on the Nile.
(14) Hadramout: province in Yemen.
(15) This hadith is repeated by: Ibn Uday Al-Jurjani, (d976) Ibn Iraq (1036); al Maydani (1124); al Dhahabi (1348); al Abshihi (1450); al Sakhawi (1497); Suyuti (1505); (and many others).
(16) Abu Masar: see my webpage on Abu Mashar al-Balkhi, Jafar Ibn Muhammad (d885).
(17) the holy law
(18) Dinars: gold coin of one mithqal (4-5 gr of gold).
(19) Kamal al-Din Ahmad b. Abi al-Fada’il b. Abi al-Majid al-Hamawi b. al-Dakhmisi, he died somewhere in India. (600/1204—671/1273). Known as Hadith collector.
(20) Al-Muqqari Abu Abd Al-Rahman: Hadith collector (d.828AD) from Basra died in Mekka.
(21) Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Al-Muqari: (d.991) from Isfahan; lived everywhere in the Middle East. Know as Hadith transmitter and wrote a dictionary.
(22) Muhammad b. ‘Ali b. Abi Bakr, the Great Jurist, the scholar, Shams al-Din, al-Tamimi, al-Maqdishawi al-Shafi‘i (648/1250—718/1318). Al-Maqdishawi transmitted hadith from al-Kamal Ibn al-Dakhmisi al-Hamawi (600/1204—671/1273), whom he met in al-Rum.
Al-Maqdishawi travelled to India, Iraq, Damascus, and performed Hajj many times, and stayed in Mecca. al-Dahabi then narrates one of the Ahadith he heard from al-Maqdishawi in the year 710/1310, at the mature age of 37 years, while al-Maqdishawi heard it from Ibn al- Dakhmisi in the year 670/1272 in India. al-Maqdishawi died in 718/1318 at the age of 70 years.
He is mentioned by al-Asqalani (1448); Al-Dhahabi (1348); Ibn Nasir al-Din (1348). This last author mentions adds that he is from Mogadishu in the land of Zanzibar.
(23) also spelled Dhu al-Qi'dah or Zu al-Qa'dah, is the eleventh month in the Islamic calendar.
(24) This hadith is repeated by: Masudi (916); Abu Nu’aym al Isfahani 1038; Abu Ubayd al Bakri 1067; Ibn Qudama al Maqdisi 1223; Ibn al Jawzi 1257; Ibn abd al Rahman al Mizzi 1342; al Dhahabi 1348; (and many others). Al Kulayni 939 was maybe the first to use it.