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Ibn Kathir is born in a village of the Busra al-Sham district, about 701/1302

ميلاد ابن كثير بقرية من أعمال بصرى الشام، نحو ٧٠١هـ

c. 1302 CE · 701 AH

Busra

Isma'il ibn 'Umar ibn Kathir ibn Daw', 'Imad al-Din Abu l-Fida', was born in a village of the district of Busra al-Sham; Ibn Hajar says 'born in the year 700 or shortly after' 1, the editor of the Dhayl fixes it at 701 2, and al-Zirikli gives 'a village of the Busra al-Sham district' 3.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

1290130013101320 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Busra

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Summary

Isma'il ibn 'Umar ibn Kathir, 'Imad al-Din Abu l-Fida', was born in a village of the district of Busra al-Sham in the year 700 or shortly after 1, a birth the Dhayl fixes at 701 2.

Name and place

He is al-Qurashi al-Busrawi then al-Dimashqi; al-Zirikli writes that he was born in a village of the Busra al-Sham district — that is, in the Hawran — before growing up in Damascus 3.

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Had participant
Ibn Kathir
Occurred at
Busra
During the reign of
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi

People and things also explored

Damascus· Ibn Kathir· Busra· Dayr al-Naqi· Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300· Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277

Sources

  1. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 1/374
  2. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , dhayl p. 99
  3. al-Alam — al-Zirikli , 1/112
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Damascus

Syrian city, capital of the Umayyad caliphate (661-750 CE) and home of the Umayyad Mosque. Ibn Battuta records reaching Damascus on 9 Ramadan 726 and lodging at the Maliki madrasa known as al-Sharbashiyya, quoting Ibn Jubayr's naming it 'the paradise of the East'; he calls its congregational mosque the finest of the world's mosques in construction, noting that al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik undertook the building after the Byzantine king sent craftsmen The Encyclopaedia of Islam traces the city from the Bronze Age through Aramaean, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine rule to the Arab conquest of 14-15 AH (635-636 CE), then through Umayyad, Abbasid, Burid, Zengid, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman rule to the French mandate of 1920, describing the Great Mosque built by al-Walid I and the city's role as a centre of madrasas under Nur al-Din and the Ayyubids.