Ibn al-ʿImād ( ar, إبن العماد) (1623-1679), full name ʿAbd al-Ḥayy bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad ibn al-ʿImād al-ʿAkarī al-Ḥanbalī Abū al-Falāḥ ( ar, عبد الحي بن أحمد بن محمد ابن العماد العكري الحنبلي أبو الفلاح), was a

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historian and faqih of the

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Life

Born in the Al-Salihiyah quarter of

Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...

, he lived in

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for a long period, where he studied under Sultan al-Mazzahi, Nur al-Din Shabramallasi, Shihab al-Din al-Qalyubi, and others, before returning to Damascus to teach. His students included Muhammad ibn Fadlallah al-Muhibbi and Mustafa al-Hamawi. Ibn al-ʿImad died while undertaking the

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and was buried in

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. He was primarily known for his lengthy

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''Shadharāt al-dhahab fī akhbār man dhahab'' ("Fragments of Gold in the Accounts of Those Who Have Departed"), completed in 1670, and covers the first ten centuries of Islamic history. It focuses on providing detailed obituary notices and is an important source in

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.F. Rosenthal. ''

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'', 2nd ed, Brill. "Ibn al-ʿImād", Vol. 3, p. 807.

Works

*''Shadharāt al-dhahab fī akhbār man dhahab'' (); ( Al-Qāhira, Maktaba al-Qudsī, 1931-1932) *''Sharḥ matn al-muntahá fī fiqh al-Ḥanābilah'' *''Sharḥ badīʿiyyat Ibn Ḥijjah''

References

External links

Ibn al-ʿImād's works
(in Arabic) 1623 births 1679 deaths 17th-century Arabs 17th-century biographers 17th-century Muslim scholars of Islam 17th-century Syrian historians Arab Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Hadith scholars Hanbalis Encyclopedists from the Ottoman Empire Writers from Damascus Sunni Muslim scholars Syrian scholars {{islam-scholar-stub