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Birth of Ibn al-Salah at Sharakhan near Shahrazur, 577/1181

ولادة ابن الصلاح بقرية شرخان قرب شهرزور، ٥٧٧هـ/١١٨١م

c. 1181 CE · 577 AH

Shahrazur

Taqi al-Din Abu 'Amr 'Uthman b. 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Uthman b. Musa al-Kurdi al-Shahrazuri — Ibn al-Salah — was born in 577/1181 at Sharakhan, a village in the Irbil district near Shahrazur, into a house of learning: his father Abu al-Qasim Salah al-Din was the shaykh of that district 1 2 3.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

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1170118011901200 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Shahrazur

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Summary

Taqi al-Din Abu 'Amr 'Uthman b. 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Uthman b. Musa al-Kurdi al-Shahrazuri — Ibn al-Salah — was born in 577/1181 at Sharakhan, a village in the Irbil district near Shahrazur. 1 3

A house of learning

His father Abu al-Qasim Salah al-Din al-Nasri was the shaykh of that district, so the boy grew up in a house of learning and Shafi'i fiqh. 1 2

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Had participant
Ibn al-Salah
Occurred at
Shahrazur
During the reign of
al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'

People and things also explored

Ibn al-Salah studies fiqh under his father at Shahrazur, then repeats for Ibn Yunus at Mosul, c. 590· Ibn al-Salah teaches at the Salahiyya madrasa in Jerusalem on his second tour, c. 618· The demolition of Jerusalem's walls brings Ibn al-Salah to Damascus: the Rawahiyya post, c. 619· Ibn al-Salah's first hadith journey at about twenty-four: Baghdad, Dubays and Hamadan, c. 601· Ibn al-Salah enters al-Sham in 617 or earlier: Damascus, Aleppo and Harran, 617/1220· Ibn al-Salah· Shahrazur· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 185
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 229
  3. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 959
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Ibn al-Salah studies fiqh under his father at Shahrazur, then repeats for Ibn Yunus at Mosul, c. 590

Ibn al-Salah read fiqh under his father Salah at Shahrazur, whose father was the district's shaykh, then was taken to Mosul where he studied a while and excelled in the madhhab; Ibn Khallikan reports that he repeated the whole of the 'Muhadhdhab' before his beard had grown, then took the post of repeater (mu'id) under the scholar al-Imad Ibn Yunus, and heard at Mosul from 'Ubayd Allah b. al-Samin, Nasr Allah b. Salama al-Hayti, 'Abd al-Muhsin the khatib of Mosul and others.