Sharaf al-Din al-Maqdisi al-Salihi

شرف الدين المقدسي الصالحي

1209 CE · 605 AH – c. January 1261 CE · c. 8 Muharram 659 AH

Damascus

The Salihi Hanbali jurist (b. 605) — al-Muwaffaq's pupil, mufti and Jawziyya mudarris; Abu Shama: 'a good man'; d. night of 8 Muharram 659, buried on the mountain 1.

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar · teacher
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abu Shama al-Dimashqi · Ahmad al-Badawi · Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar · al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari, musnid of the age · al-Kamal al-Darir

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Damascus

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Place in the story

    sunni-hanbali (transmitted)

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    Summary

    Sharaf al-Din al-Maqdisi, Hanbali jurist, heard much hadith from Abu'l-Yaman al-Kindi and a circle after him, studied fiqh under al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq and excelled; he gave fatwas and taught at the Jawziyya for a time. Abu Shama said: he was a good man. He died on the night of 8 Muharram at Damascus and was buried on the mountain. 1

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    Studied under
    Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
    Died in
    Damascus

    People and things also explored

    al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari, musnid of the age· al-Muhibb Abdallah, Mufid al-Jabal· Ibrahim, khatib of the Mountain· Izz al-Din al-Maqdisi· Sayf al-Din Ibn Qudama· Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi· Damascus· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 306
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    islam.museum contributors. “Sharaf al-Din al-Maqdisi al-Salihi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/sharaf-al-din-al-maqdisi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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    al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari, musnid of the age

    Musnid al-dunya — transmitted hadith over sixty years, joining grandsons to grandfathers in isnad-loftiness; Ibn Taymiyya: 'my breast opens when I put Ibn al-Bukhari between me and the Prophet in a hadith', among them the Hanbali musalsal called the Golden Chain.