Al-Dhahabi
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| Syrian scholar Medieval era |
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| Name: | Al-Dhahabi |
| Birth: | 673 AH[citation needed] |
| Death: | 748 AH[1] |
| School/tradition: | Shafi'i[citation needed] |
| Influences: | Ibn Taymiya[citation needed] |
Al-Dhahabi (1274-1348)[citation needed] the great Shafi'i hadith master (hafiz) and historian of Islam, born in Damascus in 673 AH/1274[citation needed].
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[edit] Name
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn 'Uthman ibn Qaymaz, Abu 'Abdullah Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi Arabic:محمد بن احمد بن عثمان بن قيوم ، أبو عبد الله شمس الدين الذهبي
[edit] Biography
Of Turkoman origin, he first studied in Damascus and then travelled to Cairo and other cities in pursuit of Sacred Knowledge.
In addition to his mastery of hadith, he was also an Imam in canonical Koranic readings (qira'at) and textual criticism. He went blind about seven years before his death, and died in Damascus in 748 AH[1] (al-A`lam (y136), 5.326; Kitab al-kaba'ir (y36), 23-25; and Tabaqat al-Shafi`iyya al-kubra (y128), 9.100).
He wrote a letter to to his teacher Ibn Taymiya but the authenticity of this letter is disputed [2]
[edit] Works
He authored nearly a hundred works, some of them of considerable size
- Major History of Islam ('Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir), thirty-six volume
- Talkhis al-Mustadrak
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz
- The Lives of Noble Figures (Siyar a`lam al-nubala'), twenty-three volume
- Tadhhib al-Tahdhib [1]
- Al-Kashif fi Asma' Rijal al-Kutub al-Sittah [1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/scienceofhadith/asa3.html
- ^ [1] [2].
