Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Foremost 15th-century scholar of hadith and Islamic law.
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He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and Shafi'i jurisprudence.[1] In the fifteenth century, he was considered the leading authority in every branch of Islamic jurisprudence.[2]
Life and work
Al-Kharrubi enrolled Ibn Hajar in Qur'anic studies when he was five years old.[3] He memorized the entire Qur'an by the age of 9 and progressed to memorizing texts on the foundations of fiqh.[4] Ibn Hajar benefited from 628 teachers, 55 of them women.[5] In 1397, at age twenty-five, he married the hadith expert Uns Khatun, who held ijazat and gave public lectures.[6]
He taught in the Sufi lodge of Baybars for some twenty years, then in the hadith college Dar al-Hadith al-Kamiliyya.[3] Ibn Hajar commenced assembling his Fath al-Bari in 817 AH.[3] An estimated 50,000 people attended his funeral in Cairo, including the sultan and the caliph.[7] After both parents died when he was very young, Ibn Hajar and his sister Sitt ar-Rakb were raised by Zaki ad-Din al-Kharrubi, the brother of his father's first wife.[8]
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The Nur.nu account states that Ibn Hajar's family originated in the district of Qabis in Tunisia.[3] After his marriage, Ibn Hajar moved into her house, where he lived until his death.[3] In 833 AH, Timur's son Shahrukh requested a copy of Fath al-Bari, and Ibn Hajar sent the first three volumes.[3]
References
- Wikipedia, "Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Oruç, "An Evaluation of Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṭarīf's Claims", Ilahiyat Studies, 2022; "USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts", Usc.edu; Rosenthal, "Encyclopedia of Islam: New Edition", Brill, 1913, p. 776; Ludwig W. Adamec (2009), Historical Dictionary of Islam, p.136. Scarecrow Press. . (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Levanoni, "Who Were "the Salt of the Earth" of Fifteenth-Century Egypt?", Mamluk Studies Review, 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Imam Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani", Nur.nu. facts only, no text reused. damas-original.nur.nu
- Wikipedia, "Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lewis, "Encyclopaedia of Islam", Brill, 1986, p. 776 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: KANDEMİR, "İBN HACER el-ASQALÂNÎ", islamansiklopedisi, 1999, p. 514-531 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Imam Ibn Hajar Al Asqalani", Tauhidahmed; "Imam Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani", Nur.nu (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: KANDEMİR, "İBN HACER el-ASQALÂNÎ", islamansiklopedisi, 1999, p. 514-531; Ludwig W. Adamec (2009), Historical Dictionary of Islam, p.136. Scarecrow Press. .; KANDEMİR, "İBN HACER el-ASQALÂNÎ", islamansiklopedisi, 1999, p. 514-531 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: zaryab khuii, "Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani", Encyclopaedia Islamica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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