Ibn Asakir was an accomplished jurist, hadith specialist and a prolific writer.
14 Facts About Ibn Asakir
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Ibn Asakir was the pre-eminent figure of the Asakir dynasty, whose family members occupied the most prominent positions as judges and scholars of the Shafi'i school of the Sunni law in Damascus for almost two centuries.
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Ibn Asakir is often given the honorary epithets such as Al-Imam, al-'Allamah, al-Hafidh al-Kabeer, Al-Fakhruddin, al-Mujawwad, Muhaddith ash-Sham and Imam ash-Muhaddith.
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Ibn Asakir received an extensive education, as befitting someone from a wealthy family.
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Shortly after Ibn Asakir returned from his extensive travels to settle in his hometown of Damascus, Nur ad-Din Zangi conquered the city in.
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Under the patronage of Nur ad-Din, Ibn Asakir wrote the Tarikh Dimashq.
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Ibn Asakir shunned all types of material goods and refused the office of head preacher, only to strictly focus on writing, teaching, and worshipping.
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Ibn Asakir had a large number of students with some becoming world-class leading scholars in their times; amongst them:.
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Ibn Asakir's was a tumultuous time: centuries of Shia reign had not long ended in central Syria, rival warlords sought dominate the capital Damascus, and Crusaders had conquered Jerusalem.
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Al-Qasim the son of Ibn Asakir would narrate two unique reports that prophesize his legacy.
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The famous scholar Ibn Kathir quoted these two reports in his biography of Ibn 'Asakir and commented on it by saying:.
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Ibn Asakir is the sine qua non by the unanimous agreement of the community, the attainer of what is beyond aspirations, the ocean that is not bounded by a shoreline, and the erudite who carried the burden of spreading the Sunnah.
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Ibn Asakir spent his days and nights indefatigably pursuing all fields of scholarship.
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Ibn Asakir's memory captured even the slightest detail, his precision and combined the new and the old, his command put him on par with those who came before him if not exceeding them, and his breadth of knowledge was so enriching that everyone else was as a beggar compared to him.