At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-hanafi (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn al-Zahiri, the hafiz and ascetic; one of those devoted to hadith, who wrote from seven hundred shaykhs in Syria, the Jazira and Egypt, and never ceased seeking, transmitting and tracing hadith to the end of his days; he was among the firm reliables; his father was a freedman of al-Zahir Ghazi ibn Yusuf. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 759-760
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Zahiri, the hafiz”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-zahiri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.