al-Lubab fi Tahdhib al-Ansab

اللباب في تهذيب الأنساب

Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari's al-Lubab — his three-volume epitome of al-Sam'ani's Ansab, finished Jumada I 615 and judged by Ibn Khallikan 'better than the original'; al-Suyuti epitomised it further as Lubb al-Lubab 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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"Al-Lubab fi Tahdhib al-Ansab" (The Essence in Refining the Genealogies), an abridgement by Izz al-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad, Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari, who died in 630 AH, of al-Samani's book "Al-Ansab". 1

What Hajji Khalifa reports

Ibn al-Athir added things to it and made corrections to what had been left out. It is in three volumes, and he finished it in Jumada al-Ula 615 AH. According to Ibn Khallikan, it is better than the original. Al-Suyuti then abridged it and called the abridgement "Lubb al-Lubab". 1

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Ibn al-Athir al-Jazri

People and things also explored

Ibn al-Athir Diya' al-Din· Ibn al-Athir Izz al-Din· Mosul· Usd al-Ghaba fi Ma'rifat al-Sahaba· Ibn al-Athir al-Jazri

Sources

  1. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p. 653-654
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Ibn al-Athir Diya' al-Din

The man of letters Diya' al-Din Abu al-Fath Nasr Allah ibn Muhammad al-Jazari al-Shaybani, third of the Ibn al-Athir brothers; author of 'al-Mathal al-Sa'ir fi Adab al-Katib wa-l-Sha'ir' on the craft of the pen, and served the Atabeg chanceries of Mosul.