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In Ramadan, Abu al-Faraj Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn al-Jawzi died. He was a Hanbali preacher and historian, author of al-Muntazam and many hundreds of other works, and the most famous preacher of his age ².

Abu al-Barakat al-Anmati

The Hanbali hafiz Abu al-Barakat Abd al-Wahhab ibn al-Mubarak al-Anmati, mufid of Baghdad; b. Rajab 462, he heard and wrote copiously till he read back to Ibn al-Tuyuri all that man had; Ibn Nasir calls him 'the remnant of the shaykhs' — he never married — and Abu Musa al-Madini 'the hafiz of Baghdad in his age'; his student Ibn al-Jawzi said 'I read hadith to him while he wept, and profited more from his weeping than from his transmission'; he never slandered nor suffered it in his hearing; d. Thursday 11 Muharram 538, buried at the Shuniziyya cemetery of Abu al-Qasim al-Junayd, western Baghdad.

death of Ibn al-Jawzi — Ramadan 597

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