Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi

Al - Mizzi Arab المزي, يوسف بن الزكي عبد الرحمان بن يوسف الكلبي Yūsuf ibn al - ʿ Abd ar- Rahmaan Zakī ibn Yūsuf al - Kalbi, DMG Yūsuf b. az- Zakī ʿ Abd al-Rahman b. Was; Yūsuf al - Kalbi, the honorary title Jamaluddin جمال الدين / Ǧamāl ad - Dīn, the Kunya Abū ʾ l - Hajjaj أبو الحجاج / Abū ʾ l - Ḥaǧǧāǧ († 1341 * 1256 in Damascus, Aleppo ) an Islamic tradition Aryans and the lawyer schafiitischen law school.

Life

His family, whose genealogy to the Arab tribe of B. Kalb, who had settled in the area around Damascus, back, lived in al - Mizza, in one of the wealthiest suburbs of Damascus. To his education, the family, however, did not care; only at the age of 21 years he devoted himself to the Islamic sciences, studied the Koran, the Arabic grammar and especially the Hadith sciences. In his study trips he stayed in scholarly circles of Homs, Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria, Mecca and Medina. In theological questions he was under the influence of his pupil at the same time teaching master Ibn Taymiyah († 1328 ). Because of its proximity to Ibn Taymiyah and dissemination whose doctrine he came to command the Damascene qadis short term in jail.

Been appointed - in 1319 he is the head of the then -known hadith school of Damascus, the Dār al - hadith al - Ašrafīya - founded by the Ayyubid al -Malik al - Ashraf Muzaffar ad -Din (reigned between 1229-1237 ). This office he held until his death. Temporarily he also taught in the Hadith school of Homs and headed temporarily the Dār al - Hadith an- Nuriya in Damascus. After a short illness, he died of the plague; you have buried him in the cemetery of the Sufis. His most famous pupils were Adh- Dhahabi († 1348 ), Ibn Taymiyah and Ibn Katheer († 1373 ).

Works

  • Tahdhib al - Kamāl fī Asmaa ʾ ar - ridschāl / تهذيب الكمال في أسماء الرجال / Tahdib al - Kamāl fī Asmaa ʾ ar - riǧāl /, The extension of Full over the names of the Hadithüberlieferer ' is the most comprehensive biography of narrators, the major in the Hadithkompendien be called. It provides an advanced processing of the biographical work of Al- Maqdisi († 1203) with 8045 entries in 250 manuscript volumes Represents the plant is located in 35 volumes in print by. Besides the necessary biographical information, the author together the lists of teachers and students of all Aryan tradition. In its valuation in the hadith al- Mizzi based on older writings of the Hadithkritik that are not received or only fragmentary today. He presents this contradictory predicates of the first critics tradition from the 9th and 10th centuries, without commenting on them. Following a comprehensive introduction hadithwissenschaftlichen content follows the only 70 -page biography of Muhammad. According to the customs of Islamic biographers are learned women in the last volume (Vol. 35, pp. 123 et seq. ) Called.

Among the scholarly biographies " kutub ar - ridschāl " كتب الرجال / kutub ar - riǧāl /, the books on the "Men", di on the Hadithüberlieferer ' is this work of al - Mizzi is the culmination of this literary genre, which was extended several times and updated by the next generation. His student al-Dhahabi wrote to his Tadhhīb at- Tahdhib تذهيب التهذيب / Taḏhīb at- Tahdib /, The gilding of the extension ' and added al - Mizzi's work with other biographical materials. Ibn Hajar al - ʿ Asqalani († 1449 ) has written a summary of the work in twelve volumes.

  • Tuhfat al - Ashraf bi- ma ʿ rifat al - atrāf تحفة الأشراف بمعرفة الأطراف / Tuḥfatu ʾ l -Ashraf bi- ma ʿ rifat al - aṭrāf / Preciousness venerable personalities by knowing the initial words of the Hadith 'is a isnadanalytisches work in thirteen printed volumes. The author quotes the Prophet's companions who narrated by Muhammad Hadith, in alphabetical order, the names of their narrators - also alphabetically - in subsequent generations. He bases himself on all Prophetenhadithe that appear in the six canonical collections and in other Hadithwerken. He devotes special attention to the no longer present today, " As- Sunan al - kubra " السنن الكبرى / As- Sunan al - Kubra /, The large - Sunna work ' of an- Nasa'i († 915 ), in the Executive Summary 11949 hadiths have survived. This work is most recently published in 2006 in print. The wording of the Hadith not referenced the author, but only mentions the beginning ( " Taraf, Pl aṭrāf " ) and then introduce the tradition way about the same three or four generations and specify the quotations with their variants in the canonical collections. This work is indispensable for the analysis of Hadith and its dissemination in the first centuries of Islamic scholarship.
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