Birth of Taqi al-Din al-Subki in Egypt, Safar 683/April 1284

مولد تقي الدين السبكي بمصر، صفر ٦٨٣هـ/أبريل ١٢٨٤م

c. 11 April 1284 CE · 1 Safar 683 AH

Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi ibn Ali ibn Tamam — Taqi al-Din Abu al-Hasan al-Subki al-Ansari al-Khazraji al-Shafi'i — was born in Safar 683/April 1284 in Egypt; his family traced its origin to the town of Subk in the Manf district of the western Nile Delta 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Egypt & Nile

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1270128012901300 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi ibn Ali ibn Tamam — Taqi al-Din Abu al-Hasan al-Subki al-Ansari al-Khazraji al-Shafi'i — was born in Safar 683/April 1284 in Egypt; his family traced its origin to the town of Subk in the Manf district of the western Nile Delta 1.

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Taqi al-Din al-Subki
During the reign of
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi

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Al-Subki hears hadith and studies in Egypt in his youth, c. 700/1301· Cairo· Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300· Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277· Al-Nawawi finishes the Minhaj and the Rawda, 669/1270-71· Al-Nawawi completes al-Tahrir fi alfaz al-Tanbih, 671/1272-73

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 9 pp. 744-745
  • Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut)
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Al-Subki hears hadith and studies in Egypt in his youth, c. 700/1301

Al-Subki heard hadith in his youth in Egypt, and was among those who trained in disputation under Sayf al-Din Isa ibn Dawud al-Baghdadi al-Hanafi, who lived in Egypt until his death in Jumada I 705.