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Siyar A'lam Al-Nubala'
''Siyar A'lam al-Nubala ( ar, سير أعلام النبلاء) is a book written by al-Dhahabi containing the biographies of different Sahaba, ulema, rulers, ministers, and poets who lived between the time of Muhammad and that of al-Dhahabi, in addition to the seerah of Muhammad himself. Al-Dhahabi divided the book into chapters according to the generations in which the different personalities, most of whom were Muhaddiths, lived. See also * Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra References 13th-century Arabic-language books 13th-century encyclopedias 14th-century Arabic-language books 14th-century encyclopedias Biographical dictionaries {{bio-dict-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Dhahabi
Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was an Islamic historian and Hadith expert. Life Of Arab descent, Adh-Dhahabi was born in Damascus. His name, ibn adh-Dhahabi (son of the goldsmith), reveals his father's profession. He began his study of hadith at age eighteen, travelling from Damascus to Baalbek, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, Nabulus, Cairo, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Hijaz, and elsewhere, before returning to Damascus to teach and write. He authored many works and was widely renown as a perspicuous critic and expert examiner of the hadith. He wrote an encyclopaedic biographical history and was the foremost authority on the canonical readings of the Qur'an. Some of his teachers were women. At Baalbek, Zaynab bint ʿUmar b. al-Kindī was among his most influential teachers. Adh-Dhahabi lost his sight two ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
