al-Awhi, ascetic of Jerusalem

الأوهي زاهد بيت المقدس

c. 1232 CE · 10 Safar 630 AH

Jerusalem

al-Awhi — Abu Ali Hasan b. Ahmad of Awuh, a village between Zanjan and Hamadan, settled at Jerusalem; a devout ascetic of states and strivings who transmitted his ajza'; died 10 Safar 630 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Levant & Iraq
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Jerusalem

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    Sunni (transmitted)

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    Al-Awhi — fathas both — of Awah, a village between Zanjan and Hamadhan; the ascetic Abu 'Ali al-Hasan b. Ahmad b. Yusuf, resident of Jerusalem, transmitted abundantly from al-Silafi and a company — a righteous, devout servant, a man of states and struggles, with ajza' he related. He died on 10 Safar 630. 1

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    Masjid Al-Aqsa· al-Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount esplanade)· Dome of the Rock· Mosque of Omar· The Western Wall (Buraq Wall)· Arson at al-Aqsa Mosque (1969)· Atsiz ibn Uwaq's campaign against Syria· Buraq Wall disturbances (1929)

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    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 136
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    Masjid Al-Aqsa

    The Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem's south-east corner as al-Muqaddasi saw it: Davidic foundations of ten-cubit carved blocks, Abd al-Malik's superstructure 'finer than the Damascus mosque' until an Abbasid-era earthquake felled the roofed part save the mihrab; too costly for the treasury, the caliph had each provincial amir rebuild one arcade — leaving a visible 'seam' — and Abdallah ibn Tahir added fifteen marble arcades; twenty-six doors, the greatest plated in gilded brass, the domes of the Chain, the Ascension and the Prophet on its platform.