Al-Dhahabi, professor of hadith at Umm al-Salih and al-Nafisiyya, c. 710/1310

الذهبي مدرّس الحديث بتربة أم الصالح والمدرسة النفيسية، حوالي ٧١٠هـ

c. 1310 CE · c. 710 AH

Damascus

Al-Dhahabi held the professorship of hadith at the turba Umm al-Salih in Damascus and at the al-Nafisiyya madrasa 1, having received his licence to teach from Abu Zakariyya ibn al-Sayrafi, Ibn Abi al-Khayr, al-Qasim al-Irbili and others. He was unable to succeed his teacher al-Mizzi at the al-Ashrafiyya madrasa in Damascus because its founder had stipulated a particular law school for the professor of tradition 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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130013101320 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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Al-Dhahabi held the professorship of hadith at the turba Umm al-Salih in Damascus and at the al-Nafisiyya madrasa 1, having received his licence to teach from Abu Zakariyya ibn al-Sayrafi, Ibn Abi al-Khayr, al-Qasim al-Irbili and others. He was unable to succeed his teacher al-Mizzi at the al-Ashrafiyya madrasa in Damascus because its founder had stipulated a particular law school for the professor of tradition 2.

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Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi gradually loses his sight, 743/1342· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300· Al-Dhahabi composes Tarikh al-Islam and his great compilations, c. 730/1330· Al-Dhahabi is born at Damascus, 673/1274· Death of Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi at Damascus, 748/1348· Ghazan's devastation of Syria, 699· Ghazan's Campaign against Syria, 700 AH

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  1. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 3/337
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 215
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Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291

Al-Dhahabi began hearing hadith at Damascus in 690/1291 or 691 under Yusuf al-Mizzi, Umar ibn Kawwas, Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Asakir and Yusuf ibn Ahmad al-Kamuli, and studied law under Kamal al-Din ibn al-Zamlikani, Burhan al-Din al-Fazari and Kamal al-Din ibn Qadi Shubba; he was a Shafi'i. Ibn Hajar records that he pursued the quest for some twenty years, hearing much from Ibn Qudayr, Ibn Asakir and Yusuf al-Mizzi.