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Tuhfat al-Ashraf bi-Ma'rifat al-Atraf

تحفة الأشراف بمعرفة الأطراف

Al-Mizzi's atraf work collecting the musnads of the Companions whose isnads occur in the Six Books and a few minor collections, arranged alphabetically with the taraf of each hadith preceding its isnads; it is indispensable because it alone preserves the isnads of al-Nasa'i's never-printed al-Sunan al-Kubra 1; he composed it in six volumes 2.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

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Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi

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Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740· Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi is born at al-Ma'qiliyya outside Aleppo, 10 Rabi' II 654/1256· The hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi dies at Damascus, 12 Safar 742/1341· Ibn Kathir keeps close to the hafiz al-Mizzi and marries his daughter, about 735/1335· Al-Mizzi takes the shaykhhood of Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, Damascus, 718/1318· Al-Mizzi begins the quest for hadith, start of 675/1276· Al-Dhahabi hears Sahih al-Bukhari from al-Mizzi, 694/1294· Al-Mizzi is jailed over Ibn Taymiyya and the Khalq Af'al al-Ibad, 705/1305

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 240-241
  2. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 489
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Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740

On Wednesday 17 Rabi' I 740 chief qadi Taqi al-Din al-Subki took up the shaykhhood of the Ashrafiyya hadith school in Damascus in succession to the hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi, and also assumed the Nuriyya hadith school in place of al-Mizzi's son.