At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muhaddith
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-hanbali (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
The imam Shihab al-Din 'Abd al-Halim b. 'Abd al-Salam b. Sayf al-Din, khatib of Harran — father of Shaykh al-Islam Taqi al-Din; he read the madhhab under his father until he mastered it, taught, gave fatwa, wrote, and became shaykh of the town after his father, its khatib and its judge. 1
The emigration to Damascus
He had a strong hand in inheritance-law, arithmetic and astronomy; then he emigrated with his family and kin to Damascus in 667, taking the shaykhdom of Dar al-Hadith al-Sukriyya at al-Qassa'in, keeping a chair in the mosque on which he spoke from memory on Fridays; when he died his son Abu'l-'Abbas succeeded him in both. Al-Birzali said he was of the notables of the Hanbalis, and al-Dhahabi said he was eclipsed only by the light of moon and sun — meaning his father and his son. 1
Connections
- Child of
- Sayf al-Din Ibn Taymiyya
- Died in
- Damascus
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
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 564, 645
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Shihab al-Din ibn Taymiyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shihab-al-din-ibn-taymiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.