This humble author is having two copies of the fine
collection; each of being in the hand of the great scholar
Shamsuddin Muhammad bin Ali bin Hasan Jubai, grandfather of
Shaykh Bahai, Majlisi I and II, Sayyid Ne’matullah Jazaeri.
Shaykh Bahai and others have mostly mentioned about him that
he was the owner of great accomplishments and ranks and both
the versions are in the script of the First Martyr and it consists of
various problems in traditions etc. also containing different tracts
on numerous beneficial anecdotes.
One of them is having the script of Shaykh Bahai in some
places. Under the forty-ninth anecdote, I have narrated the
incident of the engraved pearl and in the second one, he has narrated an anecdote as follows:
Taj al-Din Muhammad Maya Hasani told me: My father,
Qasim bin Husain bin Maya Hasani said that Muammar bin
Ghauth Sambasi entered Hilla twice: one of them being ancient,
which is not recorded and another one two years before the
conquest of Baghdad.
At that time I was aged eight years and Faqeeh Mufiduddin
bin Jaham and people doubted him and Tajuddin bin Maya, my
uncle visited him, and I was with him as a young boy of eight
years and I saw him as a tall old man and he had applied Kohl.
He was like a structure of bones and skin and had nothing else.
He was astride a thoroughbred horse and he remained in Hilla for
some days and narrated that he was an employee of Imam Abi
Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ali Askari, and had witnessed the birth
of Imam Qaaem (a.s.).
My father said: I heard from Shaykh Mufiduddin bin Jaham
after leaving Hilla about a secret, which I cannot reveal. He
informed the Shaykh regarding the downfall of Bani Abbas.
After two years or near to it, Baghdad was captured and Motasim
was killed and kingdom of Bani Abbas was finished. Thus, glory
be to the one for whom is permanence and everlasting life.
Muhammad bin Ali Jubai wrote this in the script of Sayyid
Taj al-Din on Tuesday, Shaban of the year 859 and before this
incident two more reports are mentioned from this Muammar in
the script of al-Sayyid Taj.
First report: Through the chains of Muammar bin Ghous
Sambasi from Abul Hasan Dayi ibn Naufali Salami that he said:
I heard the Prophet Muhammad say: Verily, God created the creatures through His mercy and they are those who fulfill the
needs of people. So anyone of you who can afford to be with
them, should be with them.
Second report: Through the same chains of narrators he has
narrated from Muammar bin Ghaus Anbasi from Imam Hasan bin
Ali al-Askari (a.s.) that His Eminence said: Make your
expectations good even though it may be regarding a stone as the
Almighty Allah casts its evil in that; thus you must base your
character on that.
I said: May Allah help you, with a stone even?
He said: Did you not see the Black Stone?1
Shaykh Ibn Abi Jamhur Ahsani has mentioned these reports
at the beginning of the book of Awaaliul La-aalee2, from the
teachers of jurisprudents, from Shaykh Mufiduddin bin Jaham
from this same Muammar…and so on.
The writer says: In the reports of long lived persons, whose
names will be mentioned in brief after this, more correct than that
has not come to my notice, that what a great excellence the
grandfather of Shaykh Bahai possessed.
However, Sayyid Taj al-Din, was a prominent scholar and
he was in fact a well known judge, Taj al-Din Abu Abdullah
Muhammad bin Qasim alias Sayyid Nasaba, whose excellence
and permission is mentioned in all books of scholars and the first
martyr had permission from him for himself and his two sons: Muhammad and Ali; and for his daughter, Sittul Mashayakh,
which is included in that collection the martyr has quoted elegant
words regarding exhortation from Sayyid Tajuddin.
As for his father: He was Jalaluddin, Abu Ja’far Qasim ibn
Hasan bin Muhammad bin Hasan bin Maya bin Abu Mansoor
Hibatullah bin Haamid bin Ahmad bin Ayyub Hilli Lughwi, the
famous litterateur and a student of Shaykh Ali bin Muhammad
bin Muhammad bin Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad bin
Sukoon alias Ibne Sukoon and the Sayyid is the contemporary of
the Allamah and the narrator of the holy Saheefah from Amdu
Roasa and Ibne Sukoon and these two are from Sayyid Bahaush
Sharaf, who is mentioned in the beginning of the Saheefah; as
will become evident in its place.
As for Ibne Jaham, he is the well known jurisprudent
Mufiduddin Muhammad bin Jaham and when Khwaja
Naseeruddin came to the class the Mohaqqiq asked him about his
students that which of them is most learned in principles of roots
of religion and knowledge of principles of jurisprudence.
Mohaqqiq hinted to his father, Allamah Sadiduddin Yusuf
bin Motahhar and said regarding this jurisprudence: These two
are most learned in theology, principles of jurisprudence and also
decisive proofs on the authenticity with regard to the report of the
Mohaqqiq and those two reports from Shaykh Mufeed and his
student from this Moammar; which if it had not been decisive he
would never have quoted the report during his tenure through one
reference from Imam Hasan Askari who preceded him by more
than four hundred years. Till date we have not found any point
about him that what was the cause of his long lifespan and where
he is located and Sayyid Ne’matullah Jazairi’s gloss on Awaaliul
La-aalee is also not present that it can be referred to for some
points.
Behaarul Anwaar, vol. 53, pp. 253-254