Jamal al-Din Ibn Ruslan al-Buwaydi

جمال الدين ابن رسلان البويضي

between 1447 and 1448 CE · 851 AH – c. November 1517 CE · c. 6 Dhu al-Qa'da 923 AH

Of Buwayda village outside Damascus (b. 851) — companion-in-study to Taqi al-Din al-Balatinsi, from whom Musa al-Kinnawi took Sahih al-Bukhari; died at the Nuri hospital Thursday 6 or 7 Dhu'l-Qa'da, al-Balatinsi leading his prayer, buried at Bab al-Saghir near Shaykh Hammad 1.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Ali ibn Muhammad al-Ashmuni · Ibn al-Himsi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad · Taqi al-Din Ibn Qadi 'Ajlun · Taqi al-Din al-Balatinsi

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Summary

Jamal al-Din Abd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Ruslan al-Buwaydi, from the village of al-Buwayda in the district of Damascus, later Damascene, a Shafii. He was born in the year 851. He was a close companion of Shaykh Taqi al-Din al-Baltansi in his studies with their shaykhs. Shaykh Musa al-Kannawi read al-Bukhari with him, among other works 1.

He died at the Nuri hospital on a Thursday, around the sixth or seventh of Dhu al-Qada in the year 923. His companion al-Baltansi led the funeral prayer over him, and he was buried in the cemetery of Bab al-Saghir beside Shaykh Hammad 1.

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Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 560
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