At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Summary
Ibn al-Salah read fiqh under his father Salah at Shahrazur, whose father was the district's shaykh, then was taken to Mosul where he studied a while and excelled in the madhhab. 1
Repeating the 'Muhadhdhab' before manhood
Ibn Khallikan reports that he repeated the whole of the 'Muhadhdhab' before his beard had grown, then served as repeater (mu'id) under the scholar al-Imad Ibn Yunus; at Mosul he heard 'Ubayd Allah b. al-Samin, Nasr Allah b. Salama al-Hayti, 'Abd al-Muhsin the khatib of Mosul and 'Abd Allah b. Abi al-Sinan. 1 3
Connections
- Had participant
- Ibn al-Salah· Salah al-Din al-Nasri· al-Imad Ibn Yunus
- Occurred at
- Shahrazur· Mosul
- During the reign of
- al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'
People and things also explored
Birth of Ibn al-Salah at Sharakhan near Shahrazur, 577/1181· death of the atabeg Izz al-Din Masud of Mosul· Death of Nur al-Din Arslan Shah of Mosul· Muzaffar al-Din of Irbil besieges Mosul· Ibn al-Salah teaches at the Salahiyya madrasa in Jerusalem on his second tour, c. 618· The demolition of Jerusalem's walls brings Ibn al-Salah to Damascus: the Rawahiyya post, c. 619· Ibn al-Salah's first hadith journey at about twenty-four: Baghdad, Dubays and Hamadan, c. 601· Ibn al-Salah enters al-Sham in 617 or earlier: Damascus, Aleppo and Harran, 617/1220
Sources
- Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 185
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 229
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 959
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Salah studies fiqh under his father at Shahrazur, then repeats for Ibn Yunus at Mosul, c. 590”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/ibn-al-salah-shahrazur-mosul-590/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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