Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi

Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf al-Kalbī al-Quḍā'ī al-Mizzī
Personal
Born1256 AD (654 AH)[1]
al-Mizza, now Syria
Died1341 AD (742 AH)[3]
Damascus, now Syria
ReligionIslam
EraMamluk Era
RegionSyrian scholar
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i[4]
CreedAthari[2]
Main interest(s)Ilm ar-Rijal
Other namesAl-Ḥāfiẓ, Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mizzī
Muslim leader
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Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Kalbī al-Quḍā'ī al-Mizzī, (Arabic: يوسف بن عبد الرحمن المزي), also called Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī al-Ḥajjāj, was a Syrian muhaddith and the foremost `Ilm al-rijāl Islamic scholar.

Life

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Al-Mizzī was born near Aleppo in 1256 under the reign of the last Ayyubid emir An-Nasir Yusuf. From 1260 the region was ruled by the na'ib al-saltana (viceroys) of the Mamluk Sultanate. In childhood he moved with his family to the village of al-Mizza outside Damascus, where he was educated in Qur'ān and fiqh. [4] In his twenties he began his studies to become a muḥaddith and learned from the masters. His fellow pupil and life-long friend was Taqī al-Dīn ibn Taymiyya. It was also Taymiyya's ideological influence, which although contrary to his own Shāfi'ī legalist inclination, that led to a stint in jail.

Despite his affiliation with Ibn Taymiyya he became head of the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ashrafiyya, a leading ḥadīth academy in Damascus, in 1319. And although he professed the Ash'arī doctrine suspicion continued about his true beliefs.[4] He travelled across the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, Syria (الشَّام), and Ḥijāz and became the greatest `Ilm al-rijāl (عِلْمُ الرِّجال) scholar of the Muslim world and an expert grammarian and philologist of Arabic.[4] He died at Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyyah in Damascus in 1341/2 and was buried in the Sufiyyah graveyard.[7]

Pupils[4]

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References

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  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20061205212315/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beh/islam_hadith_melv.html. Archived from the original on December 5, 2006. Retrieved September 22, 2006. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ Makdisi, George (1962). "Ashʿarī and the Ash'arites in Islamic Religious History I". Studia Islamica. 17 (17). Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden: Maisonneuve & Larose: 78. doi:10.2307/1595001. JSTOR 1595001.
  3. ^ Laoust, Henri (2012). ""Ibn Taymiyya." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition". BrillOnline. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Juynboll 1990, p. 212.
  5. ^ Al-Dimyati (2016). THE REWARDS FOR GOOD DEEDS المتجر الرابح [انكليزي]. Dar al-Kotob al-'Ilmiyya. p. 15. ISBN 9782745176554.
  6. ^ Makdisi, George (1962). "Ashʿarī and the Ash'arites in Islamic Religious History I". Studia Islamica. 17 (17). Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden: Maisonneuve & Larose: 79. doi:10.2307/1595001. JSTOR 1595001.
  7. ^ a b c Al-Risalah al-Mustatrafah., by al-Kattani, pg. 208, Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah, Beirut, seventh edition, 2007.
  8. ^ Ibn Kathir I, Le Gassick T (translator), Fareed M (reviewer) (2000). The Life of the Prophet Muhammad : English translation of Ibn Kathir's Al Sira Al Nabawiyya. Garnet. ISBN 9781859641422. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Fozia Bora, Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World: The Value of Chronicles as Archives, The Early and Medieval Islamic World (London: I.B. Tauris, 2019), p. 38; ISBN 978-1-7845-3730-2.

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