Death of Taj al-Din al-Subki in Damascus, 7 Dhu al-Hijja 771

وفاة تاج الدين السبكي بدمشق، ٧ ذي الحجة ٧٧١هـ

c. 2 July 1370 CE · 7 Dhu al-Hijja 771 AH

Damascus

Chief qadi Taj al-Din Abd al-Wahhab ibn Taqi al-Din al-Subki died in Damascus on the night of Tuesday 7 Dhu al-Hijja 771 (c. 2 July 1370), having been stricken on the preceding Saturday night after the Friday sermon; the Encyclopaedia of Islam records that he died of plague soon after his release 1 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Levant & Iraq
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136013701380 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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Chief qadi Taj al-Din Abd al-Wahhab ibn Taqi al-Din al-Subki died in Damascus on the night of Tuesday 7 Dhu al-Hijja 771 (c. 2 July 1370), having been stricken on the preceding Saturday night after the Friday sermon; the Encyclopaedia of Islam records that he died of plague soon after his release 1 2.

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Taj al-Din al-Subki
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Damascus

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Taj al-Din al-Subki arrives in Damascus with his father, 739· First dismissal of Taj al-Din al-Subki, Sha'ban 759· Ibn al-Naqib licenses Taj al-Din al-Subki to give fatwas and teach, c. 745· The ordeal, dismissal and imprisonment of Taj al-Din al-Subki, 769· Taj al-Din al-Subki appointed Shafi'i qadi in his father's lifetime, Safar 756· Taj al-Din al-Subki restored to the judgeship, early Shawwal 759· Taj al-Din al-Subki holds the tawqi' al-dast, 754· al-Dhahabi

Sources

  1. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 2/426-427
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 9 p. 745
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Taj al-Din al-Subki arrives in Damascus with his father, 739

Taj al-Din al-Subki came to Damascus in 739 with his father, the chief qadi Taqi al-Din, and heard hadith there from Zaynab bint al-Kamal, Ibn Abi al-Yusr and others.