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Abu al-Yumn al-Kindi

أبو اليمن الكندي

c. 1126 CE · 520 AH – c. 1216 CE · 6 Sha'ban 613 AH

Damascus

The alim Taj al-Din Abu al-Yumn Zayd ibn al-Hasan ibn Zayd ibn al-Hasan al-Baghdadi, reader, grammarian and philologist; shaykh of the readers and grammarians in Syria and musnid of his age. Born in 520, he completed the ten readings at the age of ten, a feat not known to have been achieved by anyone else. Sibt al-Khayyat took him up, taught him, and sent him to Abu al-Qasim Hibat Allah ibn al-Tabbar, Abu Mansur ibn Khayrun, Abu Bakr the khatib of Mosul, and Abu al-Fadl ibn al-Muhtadi bi-Allah. He attained ample standing: al-Malik al-Mu'azzam was constant in studying with him and would come down to him from the citadel. He died on the sixth of Shawwal 613, and people's standing in the readings and hadith dropped by one rung at his death, because he was the last to have heard from al-Qadi Abu Bakr, the last to have heard from al-Jawhari, the last to transmit from al-Qati'i, and the last to transmit from al-Kurri 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Farid al-Din 'Attar · ابن الحرستاني · Ibn al-Kashshab al-Baghdadi · Radi al-Din al-Mu'ayyad al-Naysaburi · ابن الأخضر الجنابذي

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Damascus

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Overview

The polymath Taj al-Din Abu'l-Yumn Zayd ibn al-Hasan ibn Zayd ibn al-Hasan al-Baghdadi, Qur'an-teacher, grammarian and philologist; shaykh of the reciters and grammarians of Syria and musnid of the age — born in 520, he had completed the ten readings at ten years old, something not known to have been granted anyone else; Sibt al-Khayyat cared for him, taught him to recite and sent him on to Abu'l-Qasim Hibat Allah ibn al-Tabar, Abu Mansur ibn Khayrun, Abu Bakr khatib of Mosul and Abu'l-Fadl ibn al-Muhtadi bi'llah. 2

Standing and death

He attained ample standing — al-Malik al-Mu'azzam constantly studied under him and would come down from the citadel to him; he died on 6 Shawwal 613, and the people stepped down a degree with his death in readings and hadith, for he was the last who had heard Judge Abu Bakr, the last who had heard al-Jawhari, the last to transmit from al-Qati'i. 2

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Damascus
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People and things also explored

the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 54-55
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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