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Al-Mizzi is jailed over Ibn Taymiyya and the Khalq Af'al al-Ibad, 705/1305

حبس المزي بسبب ابن تيمية وكتاب «خلق أفعال العباد»، سنة ٧٠٥هـ

c. 1305 CE · 705 AH

Damascus

In 705/1305 al-Mizzi was harmed on account of Ibn Taymiyya: after the latter's disputation with the Shafi'is and his sessions with al-Safi al-Hindi then Ibn al-Zamlakani at the Ablaq palace, al-Mizzi began reading al-Bukhari's Khalq Af'al al-Ibad, which contains a chapter refuting the Jahmiyya; some held themselves meant by it, and the Shafi'i qadi of the day ordered him jailed. Ibn Taymiyya went and had him released; the deputy al-Afram had him re-jailed, then freed, and ordered proclamation that whoever discusses creed is killed 1; al-Dhahabi records that he was imprisoned for reading part of the Af'al al-Ibad book, and bore it patiently 2.

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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

In space

Damascus

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Summary

In 705/1305 al-Mizzi was harmed on account of Ibn Taymiyya: he began reading al-Bukhari's Khalq Af'al al-Ibad, which contains a chapter refuting the Jahmiyya; some held themselves meant by it and the Shafi'i qadi of the day ordered him jailed 1.

What happened

Ibn Taymiyya went and had him released; the deputy al-Afram had him re-jailed then freed, and ordered proclamation that whoever discusses creed is killed 1. Al-Dhahabi records that he was imprisoned for reading part of the Af'al al-Ibad book seized on by rival scholars, and bore it patiently 2. A Shafi'i by legal preference, al-Mizzi had wholeheartedly espoused Ibn Taymiyya's new ideas and creed, which landed him for a short time in jail 3.

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Had participant
Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi· Ibn Taymiyya
Occurred at
Damascus

People and things also explored

Al-Mizzi takes the shaykhhood of Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, Damascus, 718/1318· Ibn Kathir· Damascus· Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740· The hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi dies at Damascus, 12 Safar 742/1341· Ghazan's Campaign against Syria, 700 AH· Ibn Kathir attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya and is tried on his account, about 726-728/1326-1328· Ibn Kathir keeps close to the hafiz al-Mizzi and marries his daughter, about 735/1335

Sources

  1. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 4/458
  2. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 490-491
  3. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 240
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Al-Mizzi takes the shaykhhood of Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, Damascus, 718/1318

Al-Mizzi took charge of the dar al-hadith in 718/1318 after Ibn al-Shirishi, and it was Ibn Taymiyya who had worked for his appointment. From 718/1319 he was head of the Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, one of the great hadith academies of Damascus and a waqf; its founder had stipulated the shaykh be Ash'ari in creed, so al-Mizzi wrote in his own hand that he was an Ash'ari — yet many doubted his sincerity because of his companionship with Ibn Taymiyya.