Al-Dhahabi
Sign in to saveShams ad-Dīn Al Dhahabī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was a Syrian Sunni Muslim historian, biographer, and hadith scholar. He authored major biographical and historical works including ''Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, and Tarikh al-Islam''.
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Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Uthman ibn Qaymaz al-Dhahabi, also known by the nicknames Shams al-Din and Abu Abd Allah, was a male Islamic scholar, historian, and muhaddith. Born on October 5, 1274, in Kafr Batna, he practiced Islam and worked in the fields of Islamic theology, the science of hadith, and history. He was a student of Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Daqiq al-Eid, Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi, and al-Dimyāṭī. Among his students were Taj al-Din al-Subki, Ibn Kathir, Ṣafadī, and Khalīl ibn Aybak.
Al-Dhahabi wrote in Arabic and is noted for works including *Siyar A'lam al-Nubala* and *Tārīkh al-Islām wa-wafayāt al-mashāhīr wa-al-aʻlām*. He suffered from blindness. He died on February 4, 1348, in Damascus.
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- Grandes Femmes de L'Islam
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Key facts
- Religious biography.religion
- Islam
- Religious biography.region
- Sham
- Religious biography.era
- Medieval Era (Middle Ages)
- Religious biography.name
- Al-Dhahabi
- Religious biography.native_name
- شَمْسُ الدِّينِ الذَّهَبِيُّ
- Religious biography.native_name_lang
- ar
- Religious biography.birth_date
- 5 October 1274 (672 AH)
- Religious biography.death_date
- 3 February 1348 (748 AH) (aged 73)
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate
- Religious biography.death_place
- Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate (now Syria)
- Religious biography.denomination
- Sunni
- Religious biography.Maddhab
- Shafi'i
- Religious biography.creed
- Athari
- Religious biography.main_interests
- History, Fiqh, Hadith, Aqidah
- Religious biography.influences
- Ibn Asakir, Ibn Daqiq al-'Id, Al-Dimyati, Zaynab bint ʿUmar b. al-Kindī, Ibn Taymiyya
- Religious biography.influenced
- Salah al-Din al-Ala'i, Ibn Kathir, Taj al-Din al-Subki, Ibn Rajab, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
- Religious biography.works
- ''Siyar A'lam al-Nubala'Mizan al-Itidal''
- Religious biography.title
- Imam
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Muhammad
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Kafr Batna
- Place of death
- Damascus
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Native language
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam
- Student of
- Taqi al-Din al-Subki
- Field of work
- history
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- date of death
- 1348-02-04
- date of birth
- 1274-10-05
- name in native language
- مُحمَّد بن أحمد بن عُثمان بن قايماز الذهبي
- medical condition
- blindness
- nickname
- أبو عبد الله
- Commons category
- Al-Dhahabi
- honorific suffix
- rahimahullah
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Shams ad-Dīn Al Dhahabī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was a Syrian Sunni Muslim historian, biographer, and hadith scholar. He authored major biographical and historical works including ''Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, and Tarikh al-Islam''.
Among his best-known teachers and scholarly associates were al-Mizzi, al-Birzali, and Ibn Taymiyya.
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