Taqi al-Din al-Yildani

تقي الدين اليلداني

1172 CE · 568 AH – c. March 1257 CE · 8 Rabi' I 655 AH

The hafiz of Yalda near Damascus (b. 568, d. 8 Rabi' I 655) — took up hadith late, heard Ibn Kulayb's generation, and reported the Prophet ﷺ telling him in a dream 'you are a good man' 1.

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Roles
Scholar · muhaddith
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar · Ibn Wathiq, shaykh al-qurra' · al-Thaqafi al-Jayyani Muhammad ibn al-Hasan · Sharaf al-Din al-Mursi · al-Sadid b. Makki al-Dimashqi

Place in the story

    sunni-shafii (transmitted)

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    Overview

    The hafiz of Yalda, a village of Damascus (568–655 AH); he took up hadith late, traveled, heard Ibn Kulayb, Ibn Bush and their tier and wrote much; he related that the Prophet told him in a dream "you are a good man." He died in his village, whose khatib he was, on the eighth of Rabi' I 1.

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 277
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