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Ibn Kathir dies at Damascus, Sha'ban 774/February 1373

وفاة ابن كثير بدمشق، شعبان ٧٧٤هـ

February 1373 CE · Sha'ban 774 AH

Damascus

The shaykh 'Imad al-Din Abu l-Fida' Isma'il, son of Shihab al-Din 'Umar ibn Kathir, al-Qurashi al-Shafi'i — the imam, mufassir, muhaddith, preacher and jurist — died on Thursday 16 Sha'ban 774 at Damascus, aged seventy-four 1; Ibn Hajar likewise dates his death to Sha'ban 774, noting that he had gone blind in his last years 2.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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Summary

Ibn Kathir died on Thursday 16 Sha'ban 774 at Damascus, aged seventy-four 1; al-Durar agrees on Sha'ban 774 2.

Al-Maqrizi's obituary

Al-Maqrizi names him among the year's dead: the shaykh 'Imad al-Din Abu l-Fida' Isma'il, son of Shihab al-Din 'Umar ibn Kathir, al-Qurashi al-Shafi'i — imam, mufassir, muhaddith, preacher and jurist 1.

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Ibn Kathir
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Damascus

People and things also explored

The hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi dies at Damascus, 12 Safar 742/1341· Ibn Kathir's compilations: al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya and his other works, about 738/1338· Ibn Kathir loses his sight in his last years, about 772/1371· Ibn Kathir moves to Damascus and grows up there, about 709/1309· Ibn Kathir attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya and is tried on his account, about 726-728/1326-1328· Ibn Kathir keeps close to the hafiz al-Mizzi and marries his daughter, about 735/1335· Ibn Taymiyya· Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi

Sources

  1. Al-Suluk li-Ma'rifat Duwal al-Muluk — al-Maqrizi (ed. Sa'id Abd al-Fattah Ashur) , j.3 q.1 p. 208
  2. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 1/374
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The hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi dies at Damascus, 12 Safar 742/1341

Al-Mizzi died on Saturday 12 Safar 742 and was buried the next day in the Sufi cemetery; his son-in-law Ibn Kathir relates that he was ill for a few days and died between the zuhr and asr prayers while reciting the Throne Verse; the people prayed over him in the congregational mosque then outside Bab al-Nasr, and he was buried in the Sufi cemetery near Ibn Taymiyya, the funeral gathering being very large.