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- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Summary
Al-Mizzi died on Saturday 12 Safar 742 and was buried the next day in the Sufi cemetery; the people grieved him deeply and he left no one like him 1.
His last days
He was ill for a few days without breaking off his hadith teaching until near the end, and died between the zuhr and asr prayers while reciting the Throne Verse; his son-in-law Ibn Kathir says it was plague. The people prayed over him in the congregational mosque then outside Bab al-Nasr, and he was buried in the Sufi cemetery near Ibn Taymiyya, the funeral gathering being very large 2.
Connections
- Had participant
- Ibn Kathir· Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi
- Occurred at
- Damascus
People and things also explored
Ibn Kathir keeps close to the hafiz al-Mizzi and marries his daughter, about 735/1335· Ibn Kathir· Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi· Damascus· Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740· Ibn Kathir's compilations: al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya and his other works, about 738/1338· Ibn Kathir loses his sight in his last years, about 772/1371· Ibn Kathir moves to Damascus and grows up there, about 709/1309
Sources
- Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 493
- Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 4/461
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes
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islam.museum contributors. “The hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi dies at Damascus, 12 Safar 742/1341”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/death-al-mizzi-742/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.