Ibn al-Mulaqqin's own quest for hadith under al-Rahbi and Mughaltay, about 747/1346

طلب ابن الملقن الحديث على الرحبي ومغلطاي، نحو ٧٤٧هـ

c. 1347 CE · c. 747 AH

Cairo

Ibn al-Mulaqqin set out after hadith on his own account and heard much from the hafizes of his age — Ibn 'Abd al-Da'im and others of his circle — and graduated in hadith under Zayn al-Din al-Rahbi (d. 749) and 'Ala' al-Din Mughaltay, copying a great deal from them, gathering the ajza' and hearing the big books, while also taking fiqh from the shaykhs of his time until he mastered the disciplines 1 2.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
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1330134013501360 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Cairo

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Ibn al-Mulaqqin sought hadith on his own account, hearing the hafizes of his age such as Ibn 'Abd al-Da'im, and graduated under Zayn al-Din al-Rahbi and Mughaltay, copying much from them and collecting the ajza' and the great books 1.

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Ibn al-Mulaqqin· Zayn al-Din al-Rahbi· 'Ala' al-Din Mughaltay
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Cairo

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Ibn al-Mulaqqin is born at Cairo, Rabi' I 723/March 1323· Ibn al-Mulaqqin dies at Cairo, Rabi' I 804/October 1401· 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· Qur'an, the 'Umda and first hearings at Cairo, about 733/1333· Ibn al-Mulaqqin· Cairo

Sources

  1. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , dhayl pp. 121-122
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , 7/44
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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.