Qur'an, the 'Umda and first hearings at Cairo, about 733/1333

قراءة ابن الملقن القرآن والعمدة وسماعه بمصر، نحو ٧٣٣هـ

c. 1333 CE · c. 733 AH

Cairo

His stepfather al-Mulaqqin taught him the Qur'an then the 'Umda, and meant to school him on Imam Malik's madhhab until one of Ibn Jama'a's sons said: teach him the Minhaj. He did, and had him hear the two hafizes Ibn Sayyid al-Nas and Qutb al-Din al-Halabi, while the hafiz al-Mizzi and others of Damascus, Egypt and Aleppo gave him ijazas 1. Among those he heard was Abu l-Fath Ibn Sayyid al-Nas, who died in 734 2.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Egypt & Nile
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1320133013401350 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Cairo

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Summary

At the Tulunid mosque al-Mulaqqin taught him the Qur'an then the 'Umda, intending Malik's madhhab until a son of Ibn Jama'a advised the Minhaj instead; he was then heard before Ibn Sayyid al-Nas and Qutb al-Din al-Halabi, with ijazas from al-Mizzi and others 1.

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Ibn al-Mulaqqin· Sharaf al-Din 'Isa al-Maghribi, al-Mulaqqin· Ibn Sayyid al-Nas (Abu l-Fath)
Occurred at
Cairo

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Ibn al-Mulaqqin is born at Cairo, Rabi' I 723/March 1323· Ibn al-Mulaqqin dies at Cairo, Rabi' I 804/October 1401· The fire that consumed Ibn al-Mulaqqin's library, about 803/1400· Ibn al-Mulaqqin's ordeal in the Baraka–Barquq affair, Rabi' II 780/1378· Orphaned, the boy is raised in al-Mulaqqin's house, about 724/1324· Ibn al-Mulaqqin's own quest for hadith under al-Rahbi and Mughaltay, about 747/1346· Ibn al-Mulaqqin· Cairo

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , 7/44
  2. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , dhayl p. 121
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Ibn al-Mulaqqin is born at Cairo, Rabi' I 723/March 1323

Siraj al-Din Abu Hafs 'Umar ibn 'Ali ibn Ahmad al-Ansari, Andalusi by origin then Cairene — the future Ibn al-Mulaqqin — was born at Cairo on Saturday 14 Rabi' I 723. His father Nur al-Din 'Ali had left al-Andalus for the land of the Turks, taught its people the Qur'an and earned good money there before coming with him to settle at Cairo.