Al-Mizzi takes the Nuriyya shaykhhood after Ibn Abi al-Fath, early 740/1339

المزي يتولى مشيخة النورية بعد ابن أبي الفتح، أوائل ٧٤٠هـ

c. July 1339 CE · c. Muharram 740 AH

Damascus

The shaykh Ibn Abi al-Fath died on the morning of Sunday 4 Dhu al-Hijja 739 at the age of seventy-four and a half, and 'after him our shaykh al-Mizzi took the shaykhhood of the Nuriyya, Ibn Raf'a that of the Qawsiyya, and al-Abd that of the Nafisiyya' 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

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133013401350 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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Summary

The shaykh Ibn Abi al-Fath died on the morning of Sunday 4 Dhu al-Hijja 739 at the age of seventy-four and a half, and 'after him our shaykh al-Mizzi took the shaykhhood of the Nuriyya, Ibn Raf'a that of the Qawsiyya, and al-Abd that of the Nafisiyya' 1.

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Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi
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Damascus

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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· Ibn Kathir keeps close to the hafiz al-Mizzi and marries his daughter, about 735/1335· Al-Mizzi takes the shaykhhood of Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, Damascus, 718/1318· Al-Mizzi begins the quest for hadith, start of 675/1276· Al-Dhahabi hears Sahih al-Bukhari from al-Mizzi, 694/1294· Al-Mizzi is jailed over Ibn Taymiyya and the Khalq Af'al al-Ibad, 705/1305· Aisha bint Ibrahim ibn al-Siddiq

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 459
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