Death of Abu Bakr al-Sam'ani; the boy 'Abd al-Karim is raised by his two learned uncles, 510/1116

وفاة أبي بكر السمعاني وكفالة العمين للصبي عبد الكريم، ٥١٠هـ/١١١٦م

c. 1116 CE · 510 AH

Abu Bakr al-Sam'ani died at the beginning of 510 (1116); foreseeing his death he had entrusted his son to his two learned brothers, and Abu Sa'd grew up among his uncles and family, turning as a youth to Qur'an, fiqh and study ¹. The father was forty-three ².

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The imam Abu Sa'd Taj al-Islam 'Abd al-Karim ibn Muhammad al-Sam'ani al-Tamimi al-Marwazi al-Shafi'i, traditionist of the East; born at Marw on Monday 21 Sha'ban 506/10 February 1113, he made three great hadith journeys across Khurasan, Iraq, the Hijaz, al-Sham and Transoxiana — his teachers were said to number seven thousand — then settled at Marw teaching at the Amidiyya madrasa; author of al-Ansab in 350 folios, epitomised by Ibn al-Athir as al-Lubab and by al-Suyuti as Lubb al-Lubab, of al-Tahbir fi al-Mujam al-Kabir, of a Dhayl to the Tarikh Baghdad and of Tarikh Marw and Mujam al-Buldan; he died at Marw on Monday 1 Rabi' I 562/26 December 1166.

Death of Abu Bakr al-Sam'ani; the boy 'Abd al-Karim is raised by his two learned uncles, 510/1116

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