Ibn Hajar begins hadith lectures at the Shaykhuniyya, 808/1406

ابن حجر يبدأ تدريس الحديث بالشيخونية، ٨٠٨هـ/١٤٠٦م

c. March 1406 CE · Shawwal 808 AH

Cairo

Ibn Hajar opened his hadith lectures at the Shaykhuniyya college in Shawwal 808 (March 1406); he later taught at the renovated Jamaliyya from its opening in Rajab 811 (November 1408) and at the Mankutimuriyya from Jumada II 812 (October 1409). He also held the mufti's seat in the Dar al-Adl from 811 until his death and served as associate preacher and imam at al-Azhar and the Mosque of Amr 1 2.

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

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Cairo

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Ibn Hajar opened his hadith lectures at the Shaykhuniyya college in Shawwal 808 (March 1406); he later taught at the renovated Jamaliyya from its opening in Rajab 811 (November 1408) and at the Mankutimuriyya from Jumada II 812 (October 1409). He also held the mufti's seat in the Dar al-Adl from 811 until his death and served as associate preacher and imam at al-Azhar and the Mosque of Amr 1 2.

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شيخ الإسلام ابن حجر العسقلاني
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Completion of Fath al-Bari, the commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, 842/1438· Ibn Hajar installed as head of the Baybarsiyya khanqah, 813/1410· Ibn Hajar devotes himself entirely to hadith, 796/1393· Ibn Hajar completes the draft of Ta'liq al-Ta'liq, 804/1401· Al-Sakhawi first hears hadith from Ibn Hajar, by night with his father, 838/1434· Al-Sakhawi joins Ibn Hajar's dictation circle, 846/1442 until the master's death· Birth of the hadith master Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in Cairo, 773/1372· Death of the hadith master Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in Cairo, 852/1449

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 809
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 810
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Completion of Fath al-Bari, the commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, 842/1438

Ibn Hajar finished Fath al-Bari, his great commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, on 1 Rajab 842 (18 December 1438). Its introduction had been composed in 813/1410-11 and the work itself grew out of lecture courses he gave from 817/1414 until its completion. Its fame was such that in 833/1429-30 the Timurid ruler of Fars and Sijistan, Shah Rukh, asked Egypt's sultan Barsbay to send him copies of what had so far been published — a request echoed from the other end of the Muslim world by the Hafsid Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz.