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Al-Sakhawi's Syrian rihla: Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem, c. 873

رحلة السخاوي الحلبية الدمشقية، نحو ٨٧٣هـ

c. 1469 CE · c. 873 AH

Aleppo → Damascus → Jerusalem

After returning from his first hajj and the Alexandrian rihla, al-Sakhawi set out for Aleppo, hearing on the way at Siryagus, the Khanqah, Bilbays, Qatya, Gaza, Majdal, Ramla, Jerusalem, Hebron, Nablus, Damascus and its Salihiyya, Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Tripoli — from near a hundred teachers. In Jerusalem he drew on Taqi al-Din al-Qalqashandi's notebooks; in Aleppo its hafiz Abu Dharr al-Hili lent him books and walked him round the remaining shaykhs until the Sunan of al-Daraqutni was fetched from Damascus for him to take 1. Ibn al-Imad too records that he entered Aleppo, Damascus and Jerusalem 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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146014701480 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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AleppoDamascusJerusalem

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Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi
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Aleppo· Damascus· Jerusalem

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The demolition of Jerusalem's walls brings Ibn al-Salah to Damascus: the Rawahiyya post, c. 619· Ibn al-Salah enters al-Sham in 617 or earlier: Damascus, Aleppo and Harran, 617/1220· Ibn Taymiyya's return to Damascus under Tankiz, 712/1313· Al-Sam'ani's first great hadith journey, 529-538/1135-1143· Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda· al-Nasir, lord of Damascus· Ghanim ibn Asakir al-Maqdisi· ابن الحرستاني

Sources

  1. Al-Daw' al-Lami' li-Ahl al-Qarn al-Tasi' — al-Sakhawi (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 8/8-9
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 431
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The demolition of Jerusalem's walls brings Ibn al-Salah to Damascus: the Rawahiyya post, c. 619

When al-Malik al-Mu'azzam had Jerusalem's walls demolished, Ibn al-Salah came to Damascus and was given the teaching post of the Rawahiyya. The demolition began on the first day of Muharram 616; the people fled, some to Damascus, and Ibn al-Salah settled there for the rest of his life, teaching at the Rawahiyya, then the Ashrafiyya and the Shamiyya.