History

Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī (c. 100)

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Senior Successor, Imām, proof, the scholar of his time, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mull or Mill but it is also said to be Ibn Malī, lived through al-Jāhiliyyah and al-Islām and so is mukhaḍram, he accepted Islām during the Prophet’s ﷺ life but did not have the opportunity to meet him, lived long (130 years or so), went on military expeditions during the Caliphate of ʿUmar and many other expeditions after ʿUmar’s passing.

He narrated from ʿUmar (d. 23), ʿAlī (d. 40), Ibn Masʿūd (d. 32), Ubayy b. Kaʿb (d. 30), Bilāl (d. 20), Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ (d. 55), Salmān al-Fārisī (d. 33), Ḥudhayfah b. al-Yamān (d. 36), Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī (d. 42), Usāmah b. Zayd (c. 53), Abū Hurayrah (d. 59), Ibn ʿAbbās (d. 68) and others.

Those who narrated from him include Qatādah (d. 117), Sulaymān al-Taymī (d. 143), Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī (d. 131), and others.

He took part in the Battle of al-Yarmūk in the year 15H against the Byzantine Empire. He was declared reliable by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī (d. 234), Abū Zurʿah (d. 264) and others. He performed Ḥajj and ʿUmrah 60 times, accompanied the Companion Salmān al-Fārisī (d. 33) for 12 years, would pray until he would become unconscious, and it is said he would pray 100 units between al-Maghrib and al-ʿIshāʾ. He was graded reliable by Abū Ḥātim (d. 277).

Siyar, 4: 175.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥasan Āl al-Shaykh (d. 1285)

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Grandson of Imām Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1206), born in the year 1196 in the city of al-Dirʿiyyah which was the centre of the Salafī Daʿwah and its scholars. His father was killed in battle and so his grandfather, Imām Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb took care of him until he also passed away when ʿAbd al-Raḥmān was around 13 years old. He attended his grandfather’s lessons, memorised the Qurʾān, and then studied further under the senior students of his grandfather. He authored a commentary on his grandfather’s Kitāb al-Tawḥīd (The Book of Islamic Monotheism) entitled Fatḥ al-Majīd. He lived for almost 90 years. May Allāh have mercy upon him.

Advice

When purchasing a copy of Fatḥ al-Majīd, ensure you obtain the edition which contains Imām ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Bāz’s (d. 1420) remarks in the footnotes. The Salafī scholar, editor and annotator, Sh. Muḥammad Ḥāmid al-Faqī (d. 1378) annotated an edition of Fatḥ al-Majīd, however Imām Ibn Bāz noticed some mistakes therein and so he reviewed the work and corrected those mistakes. May Allāh reward them both for their efforts.

Bibliography

See: Sh. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm Āl al-Shaykh’s biography of him in Fatḥ al-Majīd edited by Ashraf b. ʿAbd al-Maqṣūd and published by Muʾassasat Qurṭubah in Cairo (no date). The biography was taken from Rawḍat al-Afkār of the historian, and student of Imām Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, Ibn Ghannām (d. 1225).