Afif al-Din ibn Mazru'

عفيف الدين ابن مزروع مجاور المدينة

c. September 1228 CE · Shawwal 625 AH – c. November 1296 CE · 17 Safar 696 AH

Medina

The Basran Hanbali hafiz who settled in Medina some fifty years and made forty pilgrimages 'on devotion'; al-Birzali and Ibn al-Khabbaz among his hearers 1.

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Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Arabia · Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ahmad ibn Muhsin al-Ba'labakki · Al-Abraqawhi, Ahmad ibn Ishaq · al-Dimyati · al-Kamal al-Fuwayra, musnid of Iraq · al-Taqi al-Bayyi', vizier to five sultans

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Medina

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    sunni-hanbali (transmitted)

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    Overview

    'Afif al-Din Ibn Mazru', the Hanbali jurist, muhaddith and hafiz; born at Basra, he travelled to Baghdad and read fiqh under Kamal al-Din Ibn Waddah, then moved to Medina and settled there near fifty years until death, making forty hajjs from it walaa-wise, and transmitted much in the Hijaz, Baghdad, Egypt and Damascus — al-Birzali, Ibn al-Khabbaz and al-Harithi heard from him. 1

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    People and things also explored

    Mosque of the Two Qiblas· Prophet's Mosque· The Sanctuary of Medina· Judaism in Arabia before Islam· Medina's society at the Hijra· The utum (tower-fortresses) of Yathrib· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Bakr leads the prayers during the final illness

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 761-762
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    Mosque of the Two Qiblas

    The Banu Salama mosque of Medina, named 'of the two qiblas' because the qibla was turned in it: Ibn Zabala reports that a man of Banu Salama reached them at dawn prayer with word of the change and they turned mid-prayer to the Kaaba — while al-Zamakhshari and the sira tradition make the change fall at zuhr when the Prophet had prayed two rak'as with his Companions, then turned to face the Mizab, the men and women exchanging places; Ibn Hajar reconciles the reports, and al-Majd notes that on Ibn Zabala's version Quba mosque would better deserve the name. Ibn Zabala ascribes the mosque to Banu Sawad ibn Ghanm of Banu Salama by al-Midhad, against al-Matari's ascription to Banu Haram.