Zaynab Umm al-Khayr al-Qurashi

زينب أم الخير القرشي

c. 1228 CE · c. 625 AH – c. April 1301 CE · Sha'ban 700 AH

Damascus

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Roles
Scholar
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Al-Abraqawhi, Ahmad ibn Ishaq · al-Dimyati · Sitt al-Wuzara' al-Tanukhiyya · Ahmad ibn Muhsin al-Ba'labakki · Ibn Abi al-Ahwas, al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Aziz

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Damascus

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Place in the story

    Sunni (transmitted)

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

    Overview

    Zaynab Umm al-Khayr, the Damascene muhadditha, daughter of the chief qadi Muhibb al-Din al-Qurashi; she transmitted from 'Ali b. Hajjaj, Ibn al-Muqayyar and a company, and died in Sha'ban 700, aged seventy-five 1.

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    Damascus

    People and things also explored

    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. 797
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    islam.museum contributors. “Zaynab Umm al-Khayr al-Qurashi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/zaynab-umm-al-khayr/. 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.