Imad al-Din al-Isfahani sees the Tarikh Madinat Dimashq at seventy volumes, 562/1167

عماد الدين الأصبهاني يعاين نسخة «تاريخ مدينة دمشق» في سبعين مجلداً، ٥٦٢هـ/١١٦٧م

c. 1167 CE · 562 AH

By 562/1167, when Imad al-Din came to Damascus, the Tarikh Madinat Dimashq ran to seventy books of ten parts each — up from fifty-seven in 549 — and in its final form it reached eighty volumes of eight hundred parts, as the author's son al-Qasim reports; the vast biographical dictionary is arranged alphabetically, opening with all who bore the name Ahmad ¹.

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Ibn 'Asakir

Damascus' muhaddith, author of the eighty-volume Tarikh Dimashq — Ibn Shuhba: 'the glory of the Shafi'is, imam and standard-bearer of the hadith-folk'; he heard from some 1,300 shaykhs and eighty women, completed the Qur'an weekly and daily in Ramadan, declined office, and rests at Bab al-Saghir. He went to Baghdad in 520 for five years, made the hajj in 521, journeyed east to Isfahan and Khurasan for some four years from 529, and began dictating hadith in 533; Nur al-Din built him Damascus' first dar al-hadith and urged him to finish the Tarikh.

Imad al-Din al-Isfahani sees the Tarikh Madinat Dimashq at seventy volumes, 562/1167

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