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Ibn Hajar's journey to the Hijaz and Yemen, 799/1397

رحلة ابن حجر إلى الحجاز واليمن، ٧٩٩هـ/١٣٩٧م

c. July 1397 CE · Shawwal 799 AH – c. 1400 CE · 803 AH

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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 1 2. 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 1.

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

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

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Mecca

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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 1 2. 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 1.

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شيخ الإسلام ابن حجر العسقلاني
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During the reign of
al-Mutawakkil ala Allah Muhammad ibn al-Mu'tadid

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Ibn Hajar devotes himself entirely to hadith, 796/1393· Ibn Hajar begins hadith lectures at the Shaykhuniyya, 808/1406· Ibn Hajar completes the draft of Ta'liq al-Ta'liq, 804/1401· Birth of the hadith master Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in Cairo, 773/1372· The fire that consumed Ibn al-Mulaqqin's library, about 803/1400· Ibn Hajar's pilgrimage with his guardian al-Kharrubi, 784/1382· Ibn Hajar's marriage to Uns Khatun, 798/1396· Ibn Hajar orphaned by his father's death, 777/1375

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 809
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 271
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Ibn Hajar devotes himself entirely to hadith, 796/1393

Ibn Hajar took his first steps in hadith scholarship at twenty, and in 796/1393-4 decided to devote himself entirely to it. His guardian-teacher Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali Ibn al-Qattan had introduced him to historical literature; Zayn al-Din al-Iraqi (d. 806/1404) became his principal hadith teacher, and he also heard al-Bulqini, Ibn al-Mulaqqin and al-Haythami in Cairo, and profited from Ibn Jama'a's company from 790 until the latter's death in 819. Ibn al-Imad says 'the pursuit of hadith was made dear to him, so he applied himself to it and heard much in Egypt and elsewhere'.