Al-Dhahabi hears Sahih al-Bukhari from al-Mizzi, 694/1294

الذهبي يسمع من المزي «صحيح البخاري»، سنة ٦٩٤هـ

c. 1294 CE · 694 AH

Damascus

Al-Dhahabi says of his teacher: 'I heard from him in the year 694 and took from him the Sahih of al-Bukhari and other works', al-Dhahabi then being about twenty-one 1; al-Mizzi's students also included al-Dhahabi, Abd al-Wahhab al-Subki and his son-in-law Ibn Kathir 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Levant & Iraq

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

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Damascus

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Summary

Al-Dhahabi says of his teacher al-Mizzi: 'I heard from him in the year 694 and took from him the Sahih of al-Bukhari and other works', al-Dhahabi then being about twenty-one 1.

His students

Among al-Mizzi's students were al-Dhahabi, Abd al-Wahhab al-Subki author of the Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra, and his son-in-law Isma'il ibn Umar Ibn Kathir author of al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya 2; a circle took their training from him, among them al-Barzali, Ibn al-Fakhr, al-Ala'i, Ibn Kathir and Ibn al-Attar 1.

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Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi· al-Dhahabi
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Damascus

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Taj al-Din al-Subki· Damascus· Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi gradually loses his sight, 743/1342· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300· Al-Dhahabi composes Tarikh al-Islam and his great compilations, c. 730/1330· Al-Dhahabi, professor of hadith at Umm al-Salih and al-Nafisiyya, c. 710/1310· Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 491
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 240
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Taj al-Din al-Subki

Qadi al-Qudat Taj al-Din Abd al-Wahhab ibn Taqi al-Din al-Subki (727–771/1327–1370), Shafi'i jurist, legal theorist, muhaddith and historian; born in Cairo, he moved to Damascus with his father in 739, read with al-Mizzi, attended al-Dhahabi and took his hadith diploma with Ibn Raf'a, then held the Ashrafiyya, the mosque preachership, the tawqi' al-dast and finally the judgeship of Damascus in his father's lifetime; he was tried, dismissed, imprisoned and restored several times until the headship of Syria was his, and died in Damascus. His works include the three Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya, Jam' al-Jawami' and al-Ashbah wa-l-Naza'ir.