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Ibn al-Mulaqqin dies at Cairo, Rabi' I 804/October 1401

وفاة ابن الملقن بالقاهرة، ربيع الأول ٨٠٤هـ

13 October 1401 CE · 6 Rabi' I 804 AH

Cairo

Ibn al-Mulaqqin's state changed at the end of his life and his son Nur al-Din 'Ali confined him until he died on 6 Rabi' I 804 at Cairo, aged eighty-one; he was buried beside his father in the hawsh of the Sufis outside Bab al-Nasr 1 2.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
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139014001410
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Cairo

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Summary

Ibn al-Mulaqqin's state changed at the end of his life; his son Nur al-Din 'Ali confined him until he died on 6 Rabi' I 804 at Cairo, aged eighty-one, and was buried beside his father in the hawsh of the Sufis outside Bab al-Nasr 1 2.

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Ibn al-Mulaqqin· Nur al-Din 'Ali ibn 'Umar Ibn al-Mulaqqin (the son)
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Ibn al-Mulaqqin is born at Cairo, Rabi' I 723/March 1323· The fire that consumed Ibn al-Mulaqqin's library, about 803/1400· Ibn al-Mulaqqin's ordeal in the Baraka–Barquq affair, Rabi' II 780/1378· Orphaned, the boy is raised in al-Mulaqqin's house, about 724/1324· Ibn al-Mulaqqin's own quest for hadith under al-Rahbi and Mughaltay, about 747/1346· Qur'an, the 'Umda and first hearings at Cairo, about 733/1333· Ibn al-Mulaqqin· Cairo

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , 7/45
  2. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , dhayl p. 123
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Ibn al-Mulaqqin is born at Cairo, Rabi' I 723/March 1323

Siraj al-Din Abu Hafs 'Umar ibn 'Ali ibn Ahmad al-Ansari, Andalusi by origin then Cairene — the future Ibn al-Mulaqqin — was born at Cairo on Saturday 14 Rabi' I 723. His father Nur al-Din 'Ali had left al-Andalus for the land of the Turks, taught its people the Qur'an and earned good money there before coming with him to settle at Cairo.