Ibn Khallikan settles with Ibn al-Salah at Damascus and gathers his fatwas, 632/1235

ابن خلكان يلازم ابن الصلاح بدمشق ويجمع فتاويه، ٦٣٢هـ/١٢٣٥م

c. June 1235 CE · Shawwal 632 AH

Ibn Khallikan wrote that Ibn al-Salah was one of the most eminent men of his age in tafsir, hadith and fiqh, with a share in several disciplines, that his fatwas were sound, and that he was 'one of the shaykhs from whom I benefited': he stayed with him to study in 632, and collected his fatwas in a volume ¹. Ibn Khallikan was at Damascus from Shawwal 632/June–July 1235 ².

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Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Ibn Khallikan kept company with Ibn al-Salah at Damascus in 632/1235 and gathered his fatwas into a volume; he had reached the city in Shawwal 632/June–July 1235. ¹ ²

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Ibn Khallikan wrote: he was one of the most eminent men of his age in tafsir, hadith and fiqh, with a share in several disciplines; his fatwas were sound, and he was one of the shaykhs from whom I benefited. ¹

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Had participant: Ibn al-Salah· ابن خلكان
Occurred at: Damascus

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Ibn al-Salah takes the mashyakha of the al-Ashrafiyya dar al-hadith, then the Shamiyya al-Sughra, 630/1233· Death of Ibn al-Salah at Damascus and burial in the Sufi cemetery, 25 Rabi' II 643/Sept. 1245· The demolition of Jerusalem's walls brings Ibn al-Salah to Damascus: the Rawahiyya post, c. 619· Ibn al-Salah enters al-Sham in 617 or earlier: Damascus, Aleppo and Harran, 617/1220· al-Kamal Salar al-Irbili· Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi· Shams al-Din Ibn Nuh· Taj al-Din al-Firkah, jurist of Syria

Sources

Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 186
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 959

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