Ibn Thabit al-Zamzami

ابن ثابت الزمزمي

between 1515 and 1516 CE · 921 AH

A Zamzam water-bearer of the Haram, born to scholars — he gathered al-Suyuti's works until he owned them, and 'drew much learning from his scholar uncles'; d. 921 1.

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Arabia
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: 'Abd al-Barr Ibn al-Shihna · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi

Worship and the pillars

Summary

'Abdallah ibn Thabit al-Zamzami al-Makki; one of the Zamzam water-bearers at the Meccan Haram; of scholars' sons he became a scholar himself and a lover of Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's works, collecting them until he obtained what he did; he drew much learning from his maternal uncles the scholars; he died in 921. 1

People and things also explored

The ruling on one who abandons prayer· Ada' (performance of an obligation within its time)· Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· Bone (adhm): purity, use and retaliation· The adornment of desires and the goods of this world· The people of the bench (ahl al-suffa)· The earth made a place of prayer and purity· Spending in the way of God (infaq)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 470
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The ruling on one who abandons prayer

Al-Sallabi quotes Ali: whoever does not pray is an unbeliever. He then reports from al-Nawawi the dispute over one who neglects prayer while believing it obligatory: the majority (Malik, al-Shafi'i) hold him a sinner to be asked to repent, others hold him an unbeliever, a view ascribed to Ali; Abu Hanifa and the Kufans hold him not an unbeliever but to be disciplined.