Karim al-Din al-Ja'bari

كريم الدين الجعبري

c. 1532 CE · c. 939 AH

The celebrated muqri' — author of the famous sharh on al-Shatibi's Shatibiyya; came to Damascus in 932 where Shihab al-Din al-Taybi took hadith and Ibn al-Jazari's works from him; d. about 939 1.

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Roles
teacher · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
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-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi · Abu Numayy II, sharif of Mecca · Al-Akhdari, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad

Scripture and its sciencesEducation

Summary

Karim al-Din Abd al-Karim ibn Abd al-Qadir ibn Umar ibn Muhammad al-Ju'bari, a reader of the Qur'an, an imam and a great scholar. He wrote the commentary on the Shatibiyya and well-known books on the readings of the Qur'an 1.

He came to Damascus in the year 932, and the shaykh Shihab al-Din al-Tibi studied hadith with him and the works of Ibn al-Jazari. He died around the year 939 1.

People and things also explored

Ibn al-Athir al-Jazri· al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Experience versus service, and self-development· Scientific matn (condensed school text)· Reading and culture (al-qira'a wa-l-thaqafa)· Shama'il Muhammadiyya

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 586
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Ibn al-Athir al-Jazri

The hadith scholar and jurist Majd al-Din Abu al-Sa'adat al-Mubarak ibn Muhammad al-Jazari al-Shaybani, the eldest of the three Ibn al-Athir brothers; he served the chanceries of the Jazira and Mosul, and after gout crippled him he produced most of his works by dictation, among them 'al-Nihaya fi Gharib al-Hadith' and 'Jami' al-Usul'.