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Ibn Hajar appointed chief qadi of Egypt, 827/1423

ولاية ابن حجر قضاء قضاة مصر، ٨٢٧هـ/١٤٢٣م

c. 21 December 1423 CE · 17 Muharram 827 AH

Cairo

Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay appointed Ibn Hajar chief qadi of the Shafi'is in Egypt in Muharram 827, after dismissing Ala al-Din al-Bulqini: Ibn al-Imad dates it 17 Muharram 1, while the Encyclopaedia of Islam gives 27 Muharram (31 December 1423) 2. The office remained his through repeated dismissals and reinstatements for a combined total of about twenty-one years, until he lost it finally on 25 Jumada II 852 (26 August 1448) 2.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile

In time

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

In space

Cairo

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Overview

Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay appointed Ibn Hajar chief qadi of the Shafi'is in Egypt in Muharram 827, after dismissing Ala al-Din al-Bulqini: Ibn al-Imad dates it 17 Muharram 1, while the Encyclopaedia of Islam gives 27 Muharram (31 December 1423) 2. The office remained his through repeated dismissals and reinstatements for a combined total of about twenty-one years, until he lost it finally on 25 Jumada II 852 (26 August 1448) 2.

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Had participant
شيخ الإسلام ابن حجر العسقلاني
Occurred at
Cairo
During the reign of
al-Mu'tadid bi-llah Dawud ibn al-Mutawakkil

People and things also explored

Al-Sakhawi first hears hadith from Ibn Hajar, by night with his father, 838/1434· Completion of Fath al-Bari, the commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, 842/1438· Cairo· Death of al-Maqrizi's last child, 826/1423· Return to Egypt and full-time scholarship, c. 820/1418· Al-Sakhawi joins Ibn Hajar's dictation circle, 846/1442 until the master's death· Birth of the hadith master Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in Cairo, 773/1372· Death of the hadith master Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in Cairo, 852/1449

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 271
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 810
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Al-Sakhawi first hears hadith from Ibn Hajar, by night with his father, 838/1434

In his autobiographical entry al-Sakhawi says he heard much hadith by night, with his father, from his shaykh Ibn Hajar, the first of it in 838/1434 — 'God set love of this science in my heart and I kept to his circle'.