Ibn 'Asakir travels to Baghdad with his brother and stays five years, 520/1126

Name: Ibn 'Asakir travels to Baghdad with his brother and stays five years, 520/1126
Start: 1126
End: 1131

ابن عساكر يرحل إلى بغداد مع أخيه ويقيم بها خمس سنين، ٥٢٠هـ/١١٢٦م

1126 CE · 520 AH – 1131 CE · 525 AH

Ibn 'Asakir entered Baghdad in 520 and stayed five years, hearing Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Husayn, Abu al-Hasan al-Dinawari, Abu al-'Izz ibn Kadish, Abu Ghalib ibn al-Banna and many more, and keeping to the lectures and fiqh of the Nizamiyya ¹. He went with his brother al-Sa'in, who attended Asad al-Mayhani's fiqh and Ibn Burhan's philosophy at the Nizamiyya, while 'Ali also heard the Hanbali Sa'd al-Khayr al-Ansari and the circles of al-Barmaki and al-Tanukhi ².

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Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: Levant & Iraq

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Had participant: Ibn 'Asakir
Occurred at: Baghdad· al-Nizamiyya Madrasa

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Ibn 'Asakir returns to Damascus and begins public dictation, 533-535/1139-1141· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· al-Bimaristan al-Muqtadiri· Bimaristan al-Sayyida· Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)· The Jami' al-Qati'a of Baghdad

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Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 71
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 746

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Ibn 'Asakir returns to Damascus and begins public dictation, 533-535/1139-1141

Ibn 'Asakir passed through Baghdad in 533/1139 and reached Damascus two years later. Of his resolve to teach hadith he said: he sought the permission of his senior shaykhs and the notables of the town, and every one answered 'who has a better right to this than you?' — so he began dictating in 533. From the days of Mu'in al-Din Anar onward he never again left his native city, devoting forty years to learning.