Death of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya at Damascus, buried at Bab al-Saghir, Rajab 751/1350

وفاة ابن قيم الجوزية بدمشق ودفنه بمقبرة باب الصغير، رجب ٧٥١هـ/١٣٥٠م

c. 16 September 1350 CE · 13 Rajab 751 AH

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Shams al-Din Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya died at Damascus on 13 Rajab 751, and his funeral was very crowded 1. The Encyclopaedia of Islam gives the variant 23 Rajab 751/26 September 1350 and adds that he was buried beside his mother in the Bab al-Saghir cemetery; his son Jamal al-Din Abd Allah (d. 756) succeeded him in teaching at the Sadriyya 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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134013501360 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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Shams al-Din Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya died at Damascus on 13 Rajab 751, and his funeral was very crowded 1. The Encyclopaedia of Islam gives the variant 23 Rajab 751/26 September 1350 and adds that he was buried beside his mother in the Bab al-Saghir cemetery; his son Jamal al-Din Abd Allah (d. 756) succeeded him in teaching at the Sadriyya 2.

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Reconciliation between al-Subki and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, 16 Jumada II 750· Birth of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya at Damascus, 7 Safar 691/29 January 1292· Ibn Qayyim's first khutba at Nadim al-Din's mosque in the Ghuta, 2 Rajab 736/15 February 1336· Ibn Qayyim's pilgrimage with the Syrian caravan, 731/1331· Ibn Qayyim attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya on the latter's return to Damascus, 712/1312-13· Ibn Qayyim's dispute with al-Subki over the contest stake, Muharram 746/1345· Ibn Qayyim's inaugural lecture at the Sadriyya madrasa, 6 Safar 743/11 July 1342· Ibn Rajab hears Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the shaykhs of Damascus, c. 750

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  1. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 3/403
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 855
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Reconciliation between al-Subki and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, 16 Jumada II 750

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