Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi

Yusuf al-Mizzi
Full name	Yusuf al-Mizzi
Born	654 AH ^[1] Mizza (now is part of Damascus)
Died	742 AH ^[1]
Era	Medieval era
Region	Syrian scholar
School	Shafi'i
Main interests	Ilm ar-Rijal
Influenced by Ibn Taymiya ^[2]
Influenced Ibn Kathir

Jamal al-Din, Abi al-Hajjaj, Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi (Arabic: يوسف بن عبدالرحمن المزي‎) was an Islamic scholar from the Levant.

Biography

Al-Mizzi was born in Aleppo and grew up and settled in Damascus. He died at Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyyah in Damascus in the year 1342 C.E. He was buried in the Sufiyyah graveyard.^[3]

Works

Tahdhib al-Kamal fi asma' al-rijal: a reworking of Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal, a collection of hadith narrator biographies.^[3]
Tuhfah al-Ashraf: an index of the hadith contained in the Six major Hadith collections based upon the tarf, or beginning segment, of those hadith.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beh/islam_hadith_melv.html
^ Bahajtul Baitar, Hayat Shaykh Al Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, pg 21
^ ^a ^b ^c Al-Risalah al-Mustatrafah., by al-Kattani, pg. 208, Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah, Beirut, seventh edition, 2007.

Persondata
Name	Yusuf Ibn Abd Al-Rahman Al-Mizzi
Alternative names
Short description	Islamic scholar
Date of birth	1256
Place of birth	Mizza (now is part of Damascus)
Date of death	1342
Place of death