Sitt al-Qudat, Ibn Kathir's niece

ست القضاة بنت ابن كثير

c. 1320 CE · c. 720 AH – c. February 1399 CE · Jumada II 801 AH

Damascus

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Scholar
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abu Tahir al-Khujandi of Medina · Ibrahim al-Dajwi, the grammarian · Ibn al-Ahmar, Isma'il ibn Yusuf · Abu al-Khayr al-'Ala'i al-Muqaddisi · Burhan al-Din al-Abnasi

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Damascus

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    Sunni (transmitted)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Summary

    Sitt al-Qudat bint 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn Kathir, daughter of the hafiz 'Imad al-Din's brother, transmitted by ijaza from al-Qasim ibn 'Asakir and other Syrian shaykhs and from 'Ali al-'Alwani and other Egyptian shaykhs; Salah al-Din compiled forty hadiths for her on her own teachers' authority. 1

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    Damascus

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    the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 15
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    islam.museum contributors. “Sitt al-Qudat, Ibn Kathir's niece”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/sitt-al-qudat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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    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.