Ibn 'Asakir's first hadith hearings under his brother al-Sa'in at the Umayyad Mosque, c. 505/1111

أول سماع ابن عساكر على يد أخيه الصائن في الجامع الأموي، نحو ٥٠٥هـ/١١١١م

c. 1111 CE · 505 AH

His elder brother al-Sa'in Hibat Allah had him heard the texts in 505 and after, from al-Sharif Abu al-Qasim al-Nasib, Abu al-Qasim Qawwam ibn Zayd, Abu al-Wahsh Subay' ibn Qayrat and others ¹. He had first learned grammar from his maternal grandfather, the qadi Abu al-Fadl Yahya ibn 'Ali al-Kurashi; then, about 505/1111, he began attending his brother's teaching at the Great Mosque, learning to recite and starting on hadith with its isnads ².

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Death of Nur al-Din Mahmud

Death of Nur al-Din Mahmud ibn Zangi, lord of Syria, the Jazira and Egypt's overlord — Wednesday 11 Shawwal 569, of quinsy, in the small prayer-cell he kept in Damascus citadel; refusing cupping ('a man of sixty is not bled'), buried in the citadel then translated to his madrasa by Suq al-Khawwassin. He had been mustering armies from Mosul and the Jazira to take Egypt from Saladin when death overtook him. Ibn al-Athir's verdict: after the Rashidun and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz he read of no king's conduct finer or more scrupulous in justice.

Ibn 'Asakir's first hadith hearings under his brother al-Sa'in at the Umayyad Mosque, c. 505/1111

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