'Abd al-Qadir b. Shaykh al-'Aydarus, author of al-Nur al-Safir · Islam Museum

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Roles: Scholar · writer
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Arabia · South Asia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Haqq Amanat Khan · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi · Abu Numayy II, sharif of Mecca · Afuqay, Ahmad ibn al-Qasim al-Hajari · Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti

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'Abd al-Qadir b. al-Shaykh 'Aydarus, author of al-Nur al-safir 'an akhbar al-qarn al-'ashir — Ibn al-'Imad's largest source for this century's tarjamas; born on the night of Thursday 20 Rabi' I 978. ¹

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Child of: Shaykh al-'Aydarus, 'the second 'Aydarus' of Tarim

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Ibn Hajar al-Haytami· Shaykh al-'Aydarus, 'the second 'Aydarus' of Tarim· Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)· Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)

Sources

Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 387

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Ibn Hajar al-Haytami

Ibn Hajar al-Haytami — b. Rajab 909 at Abu al-Haytham in Gharbiyya, orphaned young and fostered by Ibn Abi al-Jamayil and al-Shinnawi, licensed to teach before twenty; from 940 a Meccan mujawir teaching, issuing fatwas and writing: Sharh al-Mishkat, Sharh al-Minhaj, al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqa, Kaff al-Ri'a', al-Zawajir; 'shaykh al-Islam, seal of the scholars, imam of the two Harams'; died at Mecca in Rajab 973, buried at Ma'la.