Abd al-Rahman ibn Hibat Allah ibn Asakir

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Roles: Scholar
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa

Overview

Abd al-Rahman ibn Hibat Allah ibn Asakir, a Shafi'i jurist of Damascus of the house of Ibn Asakir, author of "the History of Damascus". ¹

Description and death

Ibn al-Athir describes him as abundant in knowledge, learned in the school, much given to righteousness, asceticism and good. He died in Damascus in Ramadan 620 AH. ¹

Sources

al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 438

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