Shihab al-Din Ibn Hajji al-Hisbani

شهاب الدين ابن حجي الحسباني

c. 1 February 1416 CE · 5 Dhu al-Hijja 818 AH – c. 2 April 1502 CE · 7 Ramadan 907 AH

The deaf judge of Damascus, b. 5 Dhu'l-Hijja 818 — before his hearing went he had already listened to Ibn Hajar himself and Ibn Burdis al-Ba'ali; the chronicler al-Nu'aymi was licensed to transmit all he had from him; d. Wednesday 7 Ramadan 907, buried at Bab al-Faradis cemetery 1.

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sijilmasi · Mahmud ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Amshati · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · al-Tizini Muhammad ibn Muhammad

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Shihab al-Din Ibn Hajji al-Hisbani

Judge Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Hajji al-Hisbani al-Dimashqi al-Atrush al-Shafii was born on the night of Wednesday, the fifth of Dhu al-Hijja in the year 818. Before he became deaf, he heard hadith from the hadith master Ibn Hajar and from Ala al-Din ibn Bardas al-Ba'li, among others 1.

He gave al-Nu'aymi permission to transmit hadith on his authority, and licensed him to transmit everything he was allowed to transmit. He died on Wednesday, the seventh of Ramadan in the year 907 and was buried in the cemetery of Bab al-Faradis 1.

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al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez· The mute person (abkam) in fiqh· Experience versus service, and self-development· Scientific matn (condensed school text)· Reading and culture (al-qira'a wa-l-thaqafa)· Motivation· Alsagh (one with a speech defect, and its rulings)· Blindness (ama): capacity, worship, testimony and contract

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 450
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