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Al-Daraqutni dies and is buried at Maqbarat Ma'ruf, 7 Dhu al-Qa'da 385/995

وفاة الدارقطني ودفنه بمقبرة معروف، ٧ ذو القعدة ٣٨٥هـ

c. 8 November 995 CE · 7 Dhu al-Qa'da 385 AH

Baghdad

Al-Daraqutni died at the end of Tuesday, 7 Dhu al-Qa'da 385, and was buried at Maqbarat Ma'ruf on the Wednesday; born on 5 Dhu al-Qa'da 306, he was seventy-nine years and two days old 1. The Shadharat has him buried near Ma'ruf al-Karkhi, aged eighty, with Ibn Shahin dying a month after him 2; al-Dhahabi gives the eighth of Dhu al-Qa'da 3.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq

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98099010001010 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Baghdad

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Summary

Al-Daraqutni died at the end of Tuesday, 7 Dhu al-Qa'da 385, and was buried at Maqbarat Ma'ruf on the Wednesday, aged seventy-nine years and two days 1; al-Dhahabi gives the eighth of Dhu al-Qa'da 3.

His grave and Ibn Shahin's news

The Shadharat has him buried near Ma'ruf al-Karkhi, aged eighty, and Abu Hafs Ibn Shahin dying a month after him 2.

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Al-Daraqutni
Occurred at
Baghdad
During the reign of
al-Qadir bi-llah Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn al-Muqtadir

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Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.184
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , pp.116-117
  3. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p.105
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Al-Daraqutni takes the lead in iqra' at Baghdad in his last days, about 384/994

Al-Daraqutni excelled in the qira'at and in his last days took the lead in the public reading of the Qur'an. He said: al-Kattani and I used to hear hadith together, and people would say 'al-Kattani will come out the muhaddith of the town, al-Daraqutni its muqri' — and I came out the muhaddith and al-Kattani the muqri''. The qadi Abu al-Tayyib al-Tabari called him Commander of the Faithful in hadith, and al-Khatib said he was the singular one of his age and the imam of his time, to whom the science of transmitted reports, the defects of hadith and the names of its men came to an end, with truthfulness, reliability and sound belief.