Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740

مشيخة دار الحديث الأشرفية والنورية بدمشق، ١٧ ربيع الأول ٧٤٠هـ

c. 10 September 1339 CE · 17 Rabi' I 740 AH

Damascus

On Wednesday 17 Rabi' I 740 chief qadi Taqi al-Din al-Subki took up the shaykhhood of the Ashrafiyya hadith school in Damascus in succession to the hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi, and also assumed the Nuriyya hadith school in place of al-Mizzi's son 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Levant & Iraq
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133013401350 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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On Wednesday 17 Rabi' I 740 chief qadi Taqi al-Din al-Subki took up the shaykhhood of the Ashrafiyya hadith school in Damascus in succession to the hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi, and also assumed the Nuriyya hadith school in place of al-Mizzi's son 1.

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Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi· Taqi al-Din al-Subki
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Damascus

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Taj al-Din al-Subki· Al-Subki summoned to Egypt, then restored at Damascus, 743/1342· Reconciliation between al-Subki and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, 16 Jumada II 750· Al-Subki leaves Damascus for Egypt in a litter, 26 Rabi' II 756· Al-Subki becomes chief qadi of Damascus, 739/1339· Al-Subki's journey to Damascus and the Pilgrimage, c. 710/1310· Al-Subki teaches at the Shamiyya al-Barraniyya, 21 Dhu al-Hijja 745· The hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi dies at Damascus, 12 Safar 742/1341

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  1. al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya — Ibn Kathir , s.a. 740 p. 204
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Taj al-Din al-Subki

Qadi al-Qudat Taj al-Din Abd al-Wahhab ibn Taqi al-Din al-Subki (727–771/1327–1370), Shafi'i jurist, legal theorist, muhaddith and historian; born in Cairo, he moved to Damascus with his father in 739, read with al-Mizzi, attended al-Dhahabi and took his hadith diploma with Ibn Raf'a, then held the Ashrafiyya, the mosque preachership, the tawqi' al-dast and finally the judgeship of Damascus in his father's lifetime; he was tried, dismissed, imprisoned and restored several times until the headship of Syria was his, and died in Damascus. His works include the three Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya, Jam' al-Jawami' and al-Ashbah wa-l-Naza'ir.