ابن عساكر
ابن عساكر
c. 1105 CE · c. 499 AH – c. January 1176 CE · c. Rajab 571 AH
Damascus' muhaddith, author of the eighty-volume Tarikh Dimashq — Ibn Shuhba: 'the glory of the Shafi'is, imam and standard-bearer of the hadith-folk'; he heard from some 1,300 shaykhs and eighty women, completed the Qur'an weekly and daily in Ramadan, declined office, and rests at Bab al-Saghir 1.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Hibat Allah al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn Asakir, the hadith scholar of the Levant and author of Tarikh Dimashq (The History of Damascus). Ibn Shuhba describes him as the pride of the Shafi'is and the imam of the people of hadith in his time. 1
He was born at the beginning of 499 AH and died in Rajab 571 AH, and was buried in the cemetery of Bab al-Saghir. The conversion to the Gregorian calendar is derived. 2
He travelled to many lands and heard from about thirteen hundred shaykhs and eighty women, and studied jurisprudence in Damascus and Baghdad. The source says that he completed the Qur'an every Friday, and every day in Ramadan, and that he turned away from offices after they had been offered to him. Al-Sam'ani said of him that he combined knowledge of the texts with knowledge of the chains of transmission. 1
His works include Tarikh Dimashq, and he has Amali Ibn Asakir (dictations). 3
Connections
- Authored
- أمالي ابن عساكر في الحديث
People and things also explored
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 719-720
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 719
- Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.)
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islam.museum contributors. “ابن عساكر”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-asakir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.