Al-Sakhawi's hajj of 896 and final settling in Medina, 1491

حجة السخاوي ٨٩٦هـ واستقراره الأخير في المدينة، ١٤٩١م

c. 1491 CE · 896 AH

In 896/1491 al-Sakhawi made the hajj and sojourned in Mecca until mid-898, when he moved to Medina, stayed months and fasted Ramadan 898 there, then returned to Mecca in its Shawwal; he remained a resident of the two sanctuaries until his death, the people of both cities and their visitors transmitting from him and collecting his works ¹ ². In his final years he completed or refined several texts there and trained students in hadith transmission ³.

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Al-Sakhawi's first pilgrimage by sea with his mother and family, 870/1466

Al-Sakhawi made no pilgrimage until after Ibn Hajar's death: he sailed via Damietta with his mother, hearing scholars at al-Tur, Yanbu' and Jeddah, reached Mecca in early Sha'ban and stayed to perform the hajj of 870 (July-August 1466) with his parents, wife and eldest brothers. He read inside the Ka'ba, at the Hijr, on the caves of Thawr and Hira', at Mina and Masjid al-Khayf, before Abu al-Fath al-Maraghi, Taqi al-Din ibn Fahd, Abu al-Sa'adat ibn Zahira and over thirty other masters; on the return he read facing the Prophetic Chamber in Medina before al-Badr ibn Farhun. It was his first pilgrimage.

Al-Sakhawi's hajj of 896 and final settling in Medina, 1491

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Al-Sakhawi's first pilgrimage by sea with his mother and family, 870/1466