Ibn al-ʿImād () (1623-1679), full name ʿAbd al-Ḥayy bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad ibn al-ʿImād al-ʿAkarī al-Ḥanbalī Abū al-Falāḥ (), was a Syrian

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historian and faqih of the Hanbali school.

Life

Born in the Al-Salihiyah quarter of

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, 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 Islamic studies.F. Rosenthal. '' Encyclopedia of Islam'', 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
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