At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Poet
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Shams al-Din al-Zarkashi al-Baghdadi
Shams al-Din al-Zarkashi al-Baghdadi, a resident of Cairo. He excelled in the readings of the Qur'an, took part in many disciplines, and practised verse. He wrote a fine poem on prosody and a commentary on it, and composed "al-Awatil al-Hawali," sixteen poems in seventeen metres, none of which uses a letter with a dot. Ibn Hajar heard from him, and he also heard from Ibn Hajar and accompanied him in hearing. At the end of his life he suffered an ordeal.
He died in Dhu al-Hijja 812 AH 1.
Connections
People and things also explored
Fath al-Bari reaches Yemen, 901· Muwatta 11· Muwatta 66· Muwatta 71· Muwatta 292· Muwatta 314· Muwatta 495· Muwatta 544
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 112
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