ابن سلام الزكي محمد بن الحسن

ابن سلام الزكي محمد بن الحسن

c. 1211 CE · c. 609 AH – c. 1232 CE · Safar 630 AH

Damascus

Ibn Salam — Muhammad b. al-Hasan of Damascus, a precise and wakeful muhaddith who, despite his youth, had already written much and memorized al-Hakim's hadith sciences; he died in Safar 630 at twenty-one, leaving his father bereft 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Levant & Iraq
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    Ibn Salam, the pure muhaddith Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Salim ibn Salam al-Dimashqi; he heard from Dawud ibn Mala'ib, Ibn al-Ban and their generation — an accomplished imam, alert, meticulous, righteous and ascetic despite his youth, who wrote much and memorised the sciences of hadith for the Hakim; he died in Safar 630 at twenty-one, and his father was stricken by his loss. 1

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    People and things also explored

    the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 140
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    islam.museum contributors. “ابن سلام الزكي محمد بن الحسن”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-salam-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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    the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)

    The mosque raised inside the cave of Mount Qasyun by Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Mu'allim beginning in 370, after a dream in which Jibril bade him build a mosque where God's name would be remembered — he called it Jibril's Cave; a broad prayer-hall floored in white marble, its columns all marble, never empty of the pious at remembrance.