At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Hibat Allah al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn Asakir, the hadith scholar of the Levant and author of Tarikh Dimashq (The History of Damascus). Ibn Shuhba describes him as the pride of the Shafi'is and the imam of the people of hadith in his time. 1
He was born at the beginning of 499 AH and died in Rajab 571 AH, and was buried in the cemetery of Bab al-Saghir. The conversion to the Gregorian calendar is derived. 2
He travelled to many lands and heard from about thirteen hundred shaykhs and eighty women, and studied jurisprudence in Damascus and Baghdad. The source says that he completed the Qur'an every Friday, and every day in Ramadan, and that he turned away from offices after they had been offered to him. Al-Sam'ani said of him that he combined knowledge of the texts with knowledge of the chains of transmission. 1
His works include Tarikh Dimashq, and he has Amali Ibn Asakir (dictations). 3
Connections
- Authored
- Amali Ibn 'Asakir fi al-Hadith
People and things also explored
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 719-720
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 719
- Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “ابن عساكر”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-asakir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.