Ibn Hajar's pilgrimage with his guardian al-Kharrubi, 784/1382

حجّ ابن حجر مع وصيّه الخروبي، ٧٨٤هـ/١٣٨٢م

c. 1382 CE · 784 AH – c. 1384 CE · 786 AH

Mecca

In 784/1382-3 Zaki al-Din al-Kharrubi took the eleven-year-old Ibn Hajar on the pilgrimage to Mecca — he had already been once with his father — and stayed on with him until 786, dying soon after in Muharram 787 (February 1385). Ibn Hajar had already memorized the Qur'an by the age of nine, and the sojourn in Arabia did not interrupt his studies 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Arabia

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1370138013901400 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Mecca

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In 784/1382-3 Zaki al-Din al-Kharrubi took the eleven-year-old Ibn Hajar on the pilgrimage to Mecca — he had already been once with his father — and stayed on with him until 786, dying soon after in Muharram 787 (February 1385). Ibn Hajar had already memorized the Qur'an by the age of nine, and the sojourn in Arabia did not interrupt his studies 1.

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شيخ الإسلام ابن حجر العسقلاني
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Mecca

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Ibn Hajar's journey to the Hijaz and Yemen, 799/1397· Taqi al-Din al-Fasi· Zamzam Well· Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Sabil of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh, Masjid al-Haram· Sabils of King Abd al-Aziz on the Mecca-Jeddah road

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 808
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Ibn Hajar's journey to the Hijaz and Yemen, 799/1397

In Shawwal 799 (July 1397) Ibn Hajar left for the Hijaz and Yemen on a study journey that ran into 801/1398, residing near the Haram at Mecca; the following year he studied in Palestine and Syria, hearing shaykhs at Gaza, Jerusalem, Damascus and Aleppo. His student travels ended with his return from Syria in 803/1400, though he later went on pilgrimage again, revisited Yemen in 806/1403 and toured Syria with Sultan Barsbay's entourage in 836-7/1432-3.