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ابن الصلاح الشهرزوري

Ibn al-Salah (RH)

Ibn al-Salah al-Shahrazuri

577–643 AH · 1181–1245 CE

Hadith Shafi'i Fiqh

Author of the Muqaddimah, the classic textbook of the hadith sciences.

Ibn al-Salah was a Kurdish scholar from Shahrazur who studied across Iraq and Khurasan and taught in Jerusalem and Damascus, where he led the famous Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyyah.

His 'Ulum al-Hadith, known as Muqaddimat Ibn al-Salah, organised the terms and methods of hadith criticism into sixty-five topics. It became the standard textbook of the field, and al-Nawawi, Ibn Kathir, al-'Iraqi and Ibn Hajar all wrote abridgements or commentaries on it.

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Life journey

  1. 1181 CE Shahrazur شهرزور
    Studied in Mosul, Baghdad and Khurasan, and taught in Jerusalem.
  2. 1220 CE Damascus دمشق
    Died 1245 CE · 643 AH
    Head of the Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyyah in Damascus. The year is approximate.

Key works

  • Muqaddimat Ibn al-Salah مقدمة ابن الصلاح
    Introduction to the Sciences of Hadith
    The classic textbook of hadith terminology.

Places in their life

The courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus
The courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

  • Taj al-Din al-Subki, Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra
  • Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-A'yan
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.
Year of settling in Damascus approximate.