Izz al-Din al-Maqdisi

عز الدين المقدسي الحنبلي

1205 CE · 602 AH – c. September 1263 CE · c. 15 Dhu al-Hijja 661 AH

Damascus

The Maqdisi hafiz (b. 602) — Ibn Tabarzad, al-Kindi, Baghdad's Fath b. Abd al-Salam, then Egypt; Ibn Qudama's pupil in fiqh, devoted to hadith; d. mid-Dhu al-Hijja 661, buried at Qasyun's foot 1.

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Roles
Scholar · muhaddith
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abu Shama al-Dimashqi · Ahmad al-Badawi · Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar · al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari, musnid of the age · al-Kamal al-Darir

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Damascus

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Place in the story

    sunni-hanbali (transmitted)

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    Summary

    'Izz al-Din al-Maqdisi, the Hanbali muhaddith; he attended Abu Hafs Ibn Tabarzad, heard from al-Kindi and his generation, travelled to Baghdad and heard from al-Fath ibn 'Abd al-Salam and others, then on to Egypt; he wrote much, devoted himself to hadith and took fiqh from Shaykh al-Muwaffaq — accomplished, righteous, reliable, benefiting many; he died mid-Dhu'l-Hijja and was buried at the foot of Qasyun. 1

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    Studied under
    Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
    Buried in
    Damascus

    People and things also explored

    al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari, musnid of the age· al-Muhibb Abdallah, Mufid al-Jabal· Ibrahim, khatib of the Mountain· Sayf al-Din Ibn Qudama· Sharaf al-Din al-Maqdisi al-Salihi· Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi· Damascus· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 530
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    al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari, musnid of the age

    Musnid al-dunya — transmitted hadith over sixty years, joining grandsons to grandfathers in isnad-loftiness; Ibn Taymiyya: 'my breast opens when I put Ibn al-Bukhari between me and the Prophet in a hadith', among them the Hanbali musalsal called the Golden Chain.