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Death of Ibn Habib al-Halabi at Aleppo, Rabi' II 779/1377

وفاة ابن حبيب الحلبي بحلب، ربيع الآخر ٧٧٩هـ

August 1377 CE · Rabi' II 779 AH

Aleppo

The shaykh and imam Badr al-Din Hasan ibn Zayn al-Din 'Umar ibn Habib al-Halabi al-Shafi'i died at Aleppo aged about seventy, having served in royal and chancery letter-writing and as deputy qadi and deputy secretary of the privy chancery; he was the master of his age in insha' and shurut, and late in life was dismissed 1 2. He died in Rabi' II 779 leaving a son, Tahir 3 4.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Aleppo

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Summary

Badr al-Din Hasan ibn Zayn al-Din 'Umar ibn Habib al-Halabi al-Shafi'i died at Aleppo in Rabi' II 779, aged about seventy; he had served in royal and chancery correspondence, as deputy qadi and deputy secretary of the privy chancery, and was the master of his age in insha' and shurut 3 1 4.

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Ibn Habib al-Halabi
Occurred at
Aleppo

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Ibn Habib brings his Tarikh Dawlat al-Atrak down to 777/1376· Ibn Habib al-Halabi· Aleppo· Abu Dawud's wider journey: Egypt, the Jazira, Harran and Aleppo· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Al-Farabi at Sayf al-Dawla's court· Al-Sakhawi's Syrian rihla: Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem, c. 873

Sources

  1. Al-Nujum al-Zahira fi Muluk Misr wa-l-Qahira — Ibn Taghribirdi , 11/189
  2. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 2/29-30
  3. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 2/30
  4. al-Alam — al-Zirikli , 2/218-219
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Ibn Habib brings his Tarikh Dawlat al-Atrak down to 777/1376

Ibn Habib carried his Tarikh Dawlat al-Atrak — the Durrat al-Aslak fi Dawlat al-Atrak — down to the year 777, and his son Abu al-'Izz Tahir added a continuation; al-Zirikli describes it as recording their annals from 648 to 778.