Al-Suyuti appointed teacher of hadith at the Shaykhuniyya, 877/1472

السيوطي مدرّساً للحديث في الشيخونية، ٨٧٧هـ/١٤٧٢م

c. 1472 CE · 877 AH

Cairo

In 877/1472 al-Suyuti obtained the post of teacher of hadith at the Shaykhuniyya; though nominated by his teacher al-Kafiyaji, he seems to have owed the appointment also to the support of a Mamluk amir 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Egypt & Nile

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1460147014801490 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Cairo

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Overview

In 877/1472 al-Suyuti obtained the post of teacher of hadith at the Shaykhuniyya; though nominated by his teacher al-Kafiyaji, he seems to have owed the appointment also to the support of a Mamluk amir 1.

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Had participant
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
Occurred at
Cairo
During the reign of
al-Mustanjid bi'llah Yusuf ibn al-Mutawakkil

People and things also explored

Al-Suyuti begins his formal studies, 864/1460· Al-Suyuti revives hadith dictation at the mosque of Ibn Tulun, 872/1467· Al-Suyuti succeeds his father teaching at the mosque of Shaykhu, 867/1463· Cairo· Al-Suyuti takes charge of the Baybarsiyya and begins to withdraw, 891/1486· Al-Suyuti completes Tafsir al-Jalalayn, 870/1466· Death of al-Suyuti’s father, 855/1451· Al-Suyuti declares himself a mujtahid, c. 888/1483

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 9 p. 914
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Al-Suyuti begins his formal studies, 864/1460

Al-Suyuti began his formal study of the religious sciences in Rabiʿ I 864; he had already finished the Qur’an before the age of eight, then memorised ʿUmdat al-Ahkam, al-Nawawi’s Minhaj, Ibn Malik’s Alfiyya and al-Baydawi’s Minhaj and presented them to the scholars of his day, who licensed him. From Shawwal 865 he attended the lessons of ʿAlam al-Din al-Bulqini, kept to Sharaf al-Din al-Munawi until the latter’s death, and read with al-Mahalli and al-Sirami among others.