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Izz al-Din Ibn Rawaha

عز الدين ابن رواحة

1164 CE · 560 AH – c. September 1248 CE · c. 8 Jumada II 646 AH

The Shafi'i (b. 560 in Sicily — born while his parents were prisoners of war; d. 8 Jumada II 646 at 85) — his father had him heard by al-Silafi the Elder at Alexandria 1.

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Roles
Scholar · muhaddith
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
al-Andalus & Europe · Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ajiba bint al-Baqdari · Ibn al-Kashshab al-Baghdadi · Ibn al-Khayr al-Azji · Ibn Khalil al-Dimashqi Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf · al-Sadid b. Makki al-Dimashqi

Place in the story

    sunni-shafii (transmitted)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Summary

    Ibn Rawaha al-Shafi'i al-Hawi was born in Sicily while his parents were in captivity, in 560; his father read him hadith at Alexandria from the elder al-Salafi and a circle. He died on 8 Jumada II at eighty-five. 1

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    Studied under
    Abu Tahir al-Silafi

    People and things also explored

    Abu Tahir al-Silafi

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 242
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    Abu Tahir al-Silafi

    The great hafiz Abu Tahir al-Silafi of Isfahan, musnid al-dunya and longest-lived of the huffaz; he heard his elders at Isfahan, reached Baghdad in 503 to hear Ibn al-Batr, made a mu'jam of Baghdad's shaykhs, then heard across the Haramayn, Kufa, Basra, Hamadan, Rayy, Qazvin, Azerbaijan, Syria and Egypt; he settled at Alexandria sixty-odd years copying and collecting books, with eighty years of being listened to — al-Dhahabi: 'I know none like him in this' — past a hundred without doubt; al-Adil, Egypt's amir, built him an Alexandria madrasa; he died Friday morning 5 Rabi' II 576.