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Al-Mizzi takes the shaykhhood of Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, Damascus, 718/1318

المزي يتولى مشيخة دار الحديث الأشرفية بدمشق، سنة ٧١٨هـ

c. 1318 CE · 718 AH

Damascus

Al-Mizzi took charge of the dar al-hadith in 718/1318 after Ibn al-Shirishi 1, and it was Ibn Taymiyya who had worked for his appointment 2. From 718/1319 he was head of the Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, one of the great hadith academies of Damascus and a waqf; its founder had stipulated the shaykh be Ash'ari in creed, so al-Mizzi wrote in his own hand that he was an Ash'ari — yet many doubted his sincerity because of his companionship with Ibn Taymiyya 3 4.

Depth

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

131013201330 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Damascus

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Summary

Al-Mizzi took the shaykhhood of the Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya in Damascus in 718/1318 after Ibn al-Shirishi 1, and it was Ibn Taymiyya who had worked for his appointment 2.

The founder's condition

The Ashrafiyya is a waqf whose founder stipulated that its shaykh be Ash'ari in creed; al-Mizzi wrote in his own hand that he was an Ash'ari, yet many adversaries doubted his sincerity and suspected him of being corrupted by Ibn Taymiyya 3 4. When harm touched the school Ibn Taymiyya said: 'No one has presided over it since it was built worthier of the founder's condition than he' 5; al-Mizzi taught there until his death 3.

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Had participant
Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi· Ibn Taymiyya
Occurred at
Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, Damascus· Damascus

People and things also explored

Al-Mizzi is jailed over Ibn Taymiyya and the Khalq Af'al al-Ibad, 705/1305· Ibn Kathir· Damascus· Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740· The hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi dies at Damascus, 12 Safar 742/1341· Ghazan's Campaign against Syria, 700 AH· 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

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 491
  2. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 492
  3. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 240
  4. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , j.10 p. 398
  5. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 4/458
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Al-Mizzi is jailed over Ibn Taymiyya and the Khalq Af'al al-Ibad, 705/1305

In 705/1305 al-Mizzi was harmed on account of Ibn Taymiyya: after the latter's disputation with the Shafi'is and his sessions with al-Safi al-Hindi then Ibn al-Zamlakani at the Ablaq palace, al-Mizzi began reading al-Bukhari's Khalq Af'al al-Ibad, which contains a chapter refuting the Jahmiyya; some held themselves meant by it, and the Shafi'i qadi of the day ordered him jailed. Ibn Taymiyya went and had him released; the deputy al-Afram had him re-jailed, then freed, and ordered proclamation that whoever discusses creed is killed; al-Dhahabi records that he was imprisoned for reading part of the Af'al al-Ibad book, and bore it patiently.