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Death of the hafiz al-Sakhawi in Medina, buried in al-Baqi', 28 Sha'ban 902/1497

وفاة الحافظ السخاوي بالمدينة ودفنه بالبقيع، ٢٨ شعبان ٩٠٢هـ/١٤٩٧م

c. 1 May 1497 CE · 28 Sha'ban 902 AH

Medina → al-Baqi' (Baqi' al-Gharqad)

Al-Sakhawi died in Medina on Sunday 28 Sha'ban 902 (c. 1 May 1497); the funeral prayer was held after the dawn prayer on the Monday, his bier was stood facing the Prophetic Chamber, and he was buried in al-Baqi' beside the shrine of Imam Malik — 'he left no one like him', wrote Ibn al-Imad 1. With him the science of jarh wa-ta'dil reached its end: none after al-Dhahabi had walked his path, it was said 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Arabia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Medina

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Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi
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Medina· al-Baqi' (Baqi' al-Gharqad)

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Medina· Al-Sakhawi's hajj of 896 and final settling in Medina, 1491· Al-Sakhawi's first pilgrimage by sea with his mother and family, 870/1466· Al-Sakhawi's hajj of 875 and two-year sojourn in the holy cities, 1471· Imam Shamil· Muhammad Ayyub· Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi· al-Baqi' (Baqi' al-Gharqad)

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 433
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 432
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Medina

City in the Hejaz to which the Prophet migrated in 622 CE; site of the Prophet's Mosque and the first Muslim community. The Prophet declared it a sanctuary as Abraham declared Mecca — its bounds 'between 'Ayr and Thawr' (or 'to Uhud' in the reading Abu 'Ubayd and al-Hazimi preferred) and 'between its two lava fields'; within them hunting and tree-cutting are forbidden and the bloodwit for unintended killing is heavier. Samhudi counts nearly ninety-five names for it, among them Tayba, Taba and Yathrib.