Abd al-Qadir ibn Badran

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Abd al-Qadir ibn Mustafa ibn Abd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad, known as Ibn Badran, author of al-Madkhal ila madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal ¹. He wrote the book's draft in Jumada al-Ula 1338 AH in Damascus, at the school of Abdullah Pasha al-Azem ¹. He died in Damascus in Rabi' al-Thani 1346 AH, and the book was printed after his death ¹.

the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)

The mosque raised inside the cave of Mount Qasyun by Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Mu'allim beginning in 370, after a dream in which Jibril bade him build a mosque where God's name would be remembered — he called it Jibril's Cave; a broad prayer-hall floored in white marble, its columns all marble, never empty of the pious at remembrance.

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the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)