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تَذْكر ◌ُالحقَّاظ

بِسُِالله الرحمن الرحيم
مقدمة المصحح
كتاب تذكرة الحفاظ للذهبى كتاب جليل، طبع مرّتين فى
دائرة المعارف العثمانية بحيدرآ باد الدكن ولم يذكر فى المطبوع عن اىّ
اصل طبع، وبمكتبة الحرم المكى نسخة من التذكرة مخطوطة حسبتها
بادى الرأى هى الأصل المطبوع عنه لما يظهر بينهما من الموافقة، ولأن
الدائرة كانت سابقا على صلة بمكتبة الحرم، ثم تبيّن لى خلاف ما ظننت
كما يأتى .
فى آخر هذه النسخة المخطوطة بخط ناسخها: ((تم الكتاب ....
غرة شهر ربيع الآخر سنة ١١٧٧ هـ بعناية سيدى القاضى العلامة ...
احمد بن محمد قاطن .... بخط أفقر عباد الله وأحوجهم اليه احمد بن
محمد الحودى .... )، وبحاشية اللوح بخط مالكها الذى كتبت له: ((استكتبه
لنفسه الفقير إلى مولاه الغنى احمد بن محمد بن عبد الهادى قاطن ....
شهر جمادى الآخرة سنة ١١٧٧ هـ وبعده بخطه: «قد شرعت فى تصحيح

لتذكرة الحفاظ
مقدمة المصحح
هذه النسخة على نسخة عليها خط المؤلف رحمه الله فى شهرذى القعدة الحرام
سنة ١١٨٢ هـ ـ احمد بن محمد قاطن)) وبحاشية آخر النسخة بخطه ايضاً:
« بلغ مقابلة على نسخة قرئت على المؤلف وعليها خطه، وبالغت فى
التصحيح عليها، ولله الحمد، فى آخر شهر ربيع الآخر سنة ١١٨٤، كتبه
الفقير الى مولاه الغنى احمد بن محمد بن عبد الهادى قاطن ... ، وجميع
التصحيحات والألحاق بخطه؛ ومتن الكتاب بحسب ما كتبه الناسخ مطابق
فى الأكثر للمطبوع صوابا و خطأ، وهذا يدل على صلة بين أصل المطبوع
وأصل هذه النسخة، واما الألحاق فمنها ما هو ساقط من المطبوع ويظهر
أنه كان ساقطا من اصل هذه النسخة وانما استدرك عن المقروءة
على المؤلف، ومنها ما هو ثابت فى المطبوع بما جرت به العادة من
الأغلاط ، وهى ملحقة فى المخطوطة على الصحة كسائر ما يلحق من
المقروءة على المؤلف، وهذا يشعر بأن هذه المخطوطة - رغما عن العناية
بها - لم تقابل على أصلها، ويشهد لهذا أننى لم اجد فيها إشارة مّا الى المقابلة
على أصلها، لكن قد جبر ذلك ورفع النسخة الى درجة الاعتماد مقابلتها
وتصحيحها على المقروءة على المؤلف، مع ان هذا الرجل الذى قام
بذلك وهو مالك النسخة احمد بن محمد قاطن كان من كبار علماء الزيدية
باليمن، وله ترجمة جيّدة فى البدر الطالع للشوكانى ( ج ١ ص ١١٣ - ١١٤)
وصفه بالمعرفة بالسنة وفنونها والتأليف فى التراجم وانه كان مجتهدا
لا يقلّد احدا وأرخ وفاته سنة ١١٩٩ه، ويدهشنى جدا ان فى التذكرة
مواضع عديدة تتعلق بالعقائد مخالفة ما عليه أسلاف هذا العالم و أشياخه
ب
واهل

مقدمة المصحح
لتذكرة الحفاظ
وأهل جهته ومع ذلك لم يعلق على شىء منها بما يشعر بالإنكار، مع
ان هناك تعليقات لضبط اسم او تفسير كلمة ونحو ذلك من الفوائد الفنيّة.
وهذا يدل على رجاحة عقل هذا الرجل ومتانة عليه رحمه الله، وقد ملك
النسخة بعده جماعة منها العلامة السيد عبد الله ابن الإمام محمد بن اسماعيل
الأمير .
وبعد فلما وقفت على هذه النسخة وكنت اعلم ان النسخ المطبوعة
قد نفدت من دائرة المعارف وانها تنوى إعادة طبع الكتاب ، كتبت
الى ناظمها الجليل الدكتور محمد نظام الدين فبعث الىّ بنسخة مطبوعة
ورغب الىّ فى مقابلتها على هذه المخطوطة وإكمال التصحيح فشرعت فى
ذلك وهاانا أكمل الجزء الأول .
" فى كل من المخطوطة والمطبوع زيادات على الآخر جعلت الزيادات
بين حاجزين هكذا [٠٠٠] وميزت ما كان من المخطوطة برقم للحاشية
واكتب فى الحاشية ((من المكية، فما كان بين حاجزين وليس عليه حاشية
فهو من المطبوع، ويبدو أن عامة ذلك ليس من أصل الكتاب وانما
زيد من الخلاصة. ولما كان التصحيح عن النسخة المقروءة على المؤلف
واختبرت انا صحته لم احتج إلى التنبيه على ما وقع فى المطبوع من
الخطأ ، فان وقع خطأ فيهما معا نبّهت عليه .
وقد كان ترقيم تراجم المطبوع وبيان الرموز مضطربا فرأيت
ان اجعل لتراجم الكتاب كلها عددا واحدا بأرقام مسلسلة وأُبّن مع
ذلك رقم الترجمة من الطبقة وأرمز بعد ذلك لمن خرج لصاحب
ج

لتذكرة الحفاظ
مقدمة المصحح
الترجمة من أصحاب الأمهات الست فيها خاصة كما جرى عليه فى المخطوطة
وان اغفل فيها بعض التراجم . فأجعل مثلا أمام اول ترجمة هكذا :
(١/ ع ابو بكر الصديق) اى الترجمة الأولى من الكتاب، والأولى
من الطبقة الأولى اخرج له الستة جميعهم ومثلا (١٦٤ جع) اى
الترجمة الرابعة والستون بعد المائة من تراجم الكتاب والحادية عشرة
من الطبقة الخامسة منه، أخرج له الستة جميعهم، واللّه الموفق .
ارقام الأمهات الست :
٥ - سنن الترمذى : ت
خ
١ - صحيح البخارى:
٦ - سنن ابن ماجه: ق
م
٢- صحيح مسلم :
٧ - السنن الأربع كلها : ٤
د
٣- سنن ابی داود :
٨ - الأمهات الست جميعها: ع
س
٤ - سنن النسائي :
مكتبة الحرم المكى
مكة المعظمة
..
١٥ شوال سنة ١٣٧٤ هـ
عبد الرحمن بن يحيى المعلمى
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ANCIENT HISTORY OF INDIA
(XI) KITABU'L-BIRŪNI FI TAHQIQ-I-MALI'L-
HIND OR THE INDIA OF AL-BIRŪNI
8 &9
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I2.
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'Ubayd b. 'Ali). ( Recently discovered portion of
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Dairatu'l-Mā'arif -il-Osmania,
( Editor-in-Chief )

(VI) TADHKIRATU'L-HUFFAZ of Shamsu'd-Din
adh-Dhahabī (d. 1347 A.D.). Standard work on
the Biographies of Traditionists ). Vol.I. (Revised
Edition) (to be continued) .
(VII) KANZU'L-'UMMAL of 'Ali al-Muttaqi al-Hindi
(d. 1567 A.D.) ( An authentic Compendium of the
Corpus of Hadith literature ) . Revised Edition.
(Vols. IV&V) (to be continued in 16 Vols.) .
HISTORICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS
(VIII) DHAIL-I-MIRATU'Z-ZAMAN of Qutbu'd-Din
al-Yūnīnī (d. 1326 A.D.). A contemporary record
of Post-Crusade Kingdoms of Syria, Egypt and
other
European
Principalities ).
Vols. I-II.
( to be continued ).
(XI) AD-DURARU'L-KAMINA of Ibn
Hajar
al-Asqalānī (d. 1448 A.D. ) Biographies of the
Eminent Personalities of VIII century A.H.
(Vol. III) .
(X)
NUZHATU'L-KHWATIR of 'Abdu'l Hayy of
Nadwatu'l -'Ulama, Lucknow.
Biographies of
Eminent Indians from the I-XIV century Hijra )
(Vols.IV&V) ( to be continued ).
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(I) The SUWARU'L-KAWAKIB of Abu'l-Husayn
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valued highly for the sake of liberal knowledge and for
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nations.
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Details of all these efforts, the position of the author
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The New Programme of these Publications ,was first
announced in 1951 at the XXII Session of the Interna-
tional Congress of Orientalists at Istanbul andwas finalised
at the Colloquium on Islamic Culture at Princeton in 1953.
It was highly welcomed by the great Orientalists that had
assembled there from the four quarters of the globe.
The visit of the Hon'ble Maulana Abu'l-Kalam Azad,
Minister of Education, Government of India, to the city
of Hyderabad, the Osmania University and the Dairatu'l-
Ma'arif on 24th September 1952 and his survey of the
activities of the Daira and its future plans put a new
life into the work of the Daira and enabled it to render
greater service by reviving the glorious past of the East
and presenting to the world a few masterpieces of the
Medieval times which have been the coveted goal of the
Western nations during this and the past centuries. This
was but a consummation of the patronage that had been
extended to Oriental Studies by India in the past ages.
The New Series of which a list is given below, ( this
work forms one of its components ) would not have seen
the light of day, had it not been for the continued
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and the Osmania University, as well as for the specific
grant of the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
Thus the Daira has been fortunate in opening fresh
fountains of knowledge for new workers in free India and
has been able to depute a few silent ambassadors of our
own country to foreign lands where Arabic is studied
seriously and where Eastern thought and learning are
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Since the achievements of Eastern authors in the fields
of humanities and sciences are of basic importance and
since modern historians of literature, religion, philosophy
and science are deeply interested in the evolution of
thought and are making great researches into the regions of
knowledge covered by the geniuses of the past centuries,
the Executive and Literary Committees of the Dairatu'l-
Ma'arif, realising the great need of our times, have planned
a New Programme of Publications and included in it
several literary, scientific and historical works which had
remained unpublished and beyond the reach of students,
scholars and even experts for centuries.
During the past seven decades, the Dairatu'l-Ma'arif,
keeping in view its aims and objects and its resources, has
contributed its share to the advancement of Eastern
knowledge in various branches of studies and has published
nearly 150 independent works in 350 volumes of which
a cursory mention has been made in the Glimpses of the
Dāiratu'l-Ma'ārif ( 1888- 1956 ), published recently.
The year 1951 marks a great extension in the activities
of the Dairatu'l-Ma'arif and it may well be claimed as
one of the lasting fruits of Independence and a symbol of
our national re-emergence.
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
TO
THE NEW SERIES
OF
THE DAIRATU'L- MA'ARIF- IL-OSMANIA,
PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES
OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION,
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

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DAIRATU'L-MAARIF-I'L-OSMANIA NEW SERIES,
No. VI,/iv
ADH-DHAHABI, ABU 'ABD'ILLAH SHAMSU'D-DIN
MUHAMMAD ( d. 748 A.H./1348 A.D. )
KITAB
TADHKIRAT'UL-HUFFÄZ
Vol. IV
( TRADITIONISTS: XV-XXI Categories )
Edited by the Bureau from the Meccan Library Ms.
Under the auspices of the Ministry of Education,
Government of India
( Revised )
III Edition
Published
by
THE DAIRATU'L-MA'ARIFI'L-OSMANIA,
( OSMANIA ORIENTAL PUBLICATIONS BUREAU)
OSMANIA UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD, 7.
ANDHRA PRADESH,
INDIA
1958 A.D./1377 A.H.
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