Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi explained

Region:Syrian scholar
Era:Mamluk Era
Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf al-Kalbī al-Quḍā'ī al-Mizzī
Other Names:Al-Ḥāfiẓ, Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mizzī
Birth Date:1256 AD (654 AH)[1]
Birth Place:al-Mizza, now Syria
Death Date:1341 AD (742 AH)[2]
Religion:Islam
Denomination:Sunni
Maddhab:Shafi'i
Main Interests:Ilm ar-Rijal
Influences:Al-Shafi'i, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Al-Dimyati,[3] Ibn Taymiyya[4]
Influenced:Al-Dhahabī, Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī, Ibn Kathīr
Death Place:Damascus, now Syria
Creed:Athari[5]

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, (ar|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

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. 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. He travelled across the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, Syria (Arabic: الشَّام), and Ḥijāz and became the greatest `Ilm al-rijāl (Arabic: عِلْمُ الرِّجال) scholar of the Muslim world and an expert grammarian and philologist of Arabic. He died at Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyyah in Damascus in 1341/2 and was buried in the Sufiyyah graveyard.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beh/islam_hadith_melv.html . September 22, 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061205212315/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beh/islam_hadith_melv.html . December 5, 2006.
  2. Web site: "Ibn Taymiyya." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. . 2012 . 2015-01-28 . BrillOnline . Laoust . Henri.
  3. Book: Al-Dimyati. THE REWARDS FOR GOOD DEEDS المتجر الرابح [انكليزي]. Dar al-Kotob al-'Ilmiyya. 2016. 9782745176554. 15.
  4. Makdisi . George . 1962 . Ashʿarī and the Ash'arites in Islamic Religious History I . Studia Islamica . 17 . 17 . Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden . 79 . Maisonneuve & Larose . 10.2307/1595001 . 1595001 .
  5. Makdisi . George . 1962 . Ashʿarī and the Ash'arites in Islamic Religious History I . Studia Islamica . 17 . 17 . Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden . 78 . Maisonneuve & Larose . 10.2307/1595001 . 1595001 .
  6. , by al-Kattani, pg. 208, Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah, Beirut, seventh edition, 2007.
  7. Book: The Life of the Prophet Muhammad : English translation of Ibn Kathir's Al Sira Al Nabawiyya . Ibn Kathir I, Le Gassick T (translator), Fareed M (reviewer) . 2000. Garnet . 9781859641422 .
  8. 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; .

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