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

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

عودة ابن عساكر إلى دمشق وبدؤه الإملاء والتحديث، ٥٣٣-٥٣٥هـ/١١٣٩-١١٤١م

1139 CE · 533 AH – 1141 CE · 535 AH

Ibn 'Asakir passed through Baghdad in 533/1139 and reached Damascus two years later ¹. 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 ². From the days of Mu'in al-Din Anar onward he never again left his native city, devoting forty years to learning ¹.

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

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