At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muhaddith
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-hanbali (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Al-Sarifini, the Hanbali hafiz and jurist resident at Damascus; he heard Ibn al-Akhdar and Ibn Tabrazad at Baghdad, then travelled the lands, hearing at Isfahan, Nishapur, Herat, Bushanj, Dinawar, Nahawand, Tustar, Tus, Mosul, Damascus, Jerusalem and Harran, and read fiqh at Baghdad under Ibn al-Tarikhi and Abu'l-Baqa' al-'Ukbari. 2
His standing
Shaykh of the Dar al-Hadith of Manbij, then holder of the Dar al-Hadith endowed by the Sahib Ibn Shaddad at Aleppo; al-Birzali called him "a pious trustworthy hafiz," Abu Shama "learned in hadith, devout, humble." 2
Connections
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
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 217-218
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 218
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Sarifini al-Hafiz”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-sarifini/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.