Ibn Kathir attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya and is tried on his account, about 726-728/1326-1328

لزوم ابن كثير شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية وامتحانه بسببه، نحو ٧٢٦-٧٢٨هـ

between 1326 and 1328 CE

Ibn Kathir took knowledge from Shaykh al-Islam Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya, became filled with love for him and was tried on his account ¹; Ibn Taymiyya's last trials — the divorce and creed proceedings and his citadel imprisonment in 726 — bore on his students before his death at Damascus in 728.

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Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Summary

Ibn Kathir took knowledge from Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyya, became filled with love for him and was tried on his account ¹.

Context

His teacher's final trials — the divorce proceedings and the citadel imprisonment of 726 — reached his students and lasted until Ibn Taymiyya's death at Damascus in 728.

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Had participant: Ibn Kathir· Ibn Taymiyya
Occurred at: Damascus

People and things also explored

Ibn Kathir· Ibn Taymiyya· Damascus· The hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi dies at Damascus, 12 Safar 742/1341· Ghazan's Campaign against Syria, 700 AH· Ibn Kathir's compilations: al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya and his other works, about 738/1338· Ibn Kathir loses his sight in his last years, about 772/1371· Ibn Kathir moves to Damascus and grows up there, about 709/1309

Sources

Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 1/374

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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Kathir attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya and is tried on his account, about 726-728/1326-1328”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/ibn-kathir-ibn-taymiyya-727/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-02.

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Ibn Kathir

'Imad al-Din Abu l-Fida' Isma'il ibn 'Umar ibn Kathir ibn Daw' al-Qurashi al-Busrawi then al-Dimashqi, the imam, mufassir, muhaddith, preacher and jurist of al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya; born in 700 or shortly after in a village of the Busra al-Sham district, raised at Damascus, he kept close to al-Mizzi and married his daughter Zaynab, took from Ibn Taymiyya and was tried on his account, compiled the Tafsir, the history and the Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya and began a Sharh al-Bukhari; he died on Thursday 16 Sha'ban 774 at Damascus, aged seventy-four.