Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi
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, (Arabic: يوسف بن عبد الرحمن المزي), also called Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī al-Ḥajjāj, was a Syrian muhaddith and the foremost `Ilm al-rijāl Islamic scholar.
Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf al-Kalbī al-Quḍā’ī al-Mizzī | |
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| Born | 1256 AD (654 AH)[1] |
| Died | 1341 AD (742 AH)[2] |
| Religion | Islam |
| Era | Mamluk Era |
| Region | Syrian scholar |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i[3] |
| Creed | Athari[4] |
| Main interest(s) | Ilm ar-Rijal |
| Other names | Al-Ḥāfiẓ, Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mizzī |
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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. [3] 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.[3] He travelled across the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, Syria (الشَّام), and Ḥijāz and became the greatest `Ilm al-rijāl (عِلْمُ الرِّجال) scholar of the Muslim world and an expert grammarian and philologist of Arabic.[3] He died at Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyyah in Damascus in 1341/2 and was buried in the Sufiyyah graveyard.[7]
Pupils[3]
- Al-Dhahabī
- ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Subkī
- Ismā‘īl ibn Kathīr – Ibn Kathir married a daughter of al-Mizzī.[8]
- Ibn al-Furat[9]
- Najm ad-Din al-Tufi
Works
- Tahdhīb al-kamāl fī asmā’ al-rijāl; biographical lexicon and comprehensive reworking of Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal, a collection of narrator biographies[7] of the transmitters of isnāds in the Six major Hadith collections and others, based upon the tarf (beginning segment) of the hadith.[7] The Tahdhīb includes Ruwāt kuttub al-sitta. Al-Asqalānī and others wrote compendia of this work.[3]
- Tuḥfat al-ashraf bi-Ma’rifat al-Aṭraf; alphabetically indexed encyclopaedia of the musnads of the first generation transmitters, the Companions of the Prophet. An indespensible resource for the study of Muslim tradition that comprises al-Nasā’ī's Al-Sunan al-kubrā.[3]
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20061205212315/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beh/islam_hadith_melv.html. Archived from the original on December 5, 2006. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - Laoust, Henri (2012). ""Ibn Taymiyya." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition". BrillOnline. BrillOnline. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- Juynboll 1990, p. 212.
- Makdisi, George (1962). "Ashʿarī and the Ash'arites in Islamic Religious History I". Studia Islamica. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden: Maisonneuve & Larose. 17 (17): 78. doi:10.2307/1595001. JSTOR 1595001 – via JSTOR.
- Al-Dimyati (2016). THE REWARDS FOR GOOD DEEDS المتجر الرابح [انكليزي]. Dar al-Kotob al-'Ilmiyya. p. 15. ISBN 9782745176554.
- Makdisi, George (1962). "Ashʿarī and the Ash'arites in Islamic Religious History I". Studia Islamica. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden: Maisonneuve & Larose. 17 (17): 79. doi:10.2307/1595001. JSTOR 1595001 – via JSTOR.
- Al-Risalah al-Mustatrafah., by al-Kattani, pg. 208, Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah, Beirut, seventh edition, 2007.
- Ibn Kathir I, Le Gassick T (translator), Fareed M (reviewer) (2000). The Life of the Prophet Muhammad : English translation of Ibn Kathir's Al Sira Al Nabawiyya. ISBN 9781859641422.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - 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; ISBN 978-1-7845-3730-2.
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- Juynboll, Gautier H. A. (1990), "Al-Mizzī", Encyclopedia of Islam, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pp. 212–3