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Al-Dhahabi
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Al-Dhahabi (1274-1348[3] or 1374)[4][5] a Shafi'i Muhaddith and historian of Islam, was born in Damascus in 1274 CE/673 AH.
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Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn 'Uthman ibn Qaymaz, Abu 'Abdullah Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi Arabic:محمد بن احمد بن عثمان بن قيوم ، أبو عبد الله شمس الدين الذهبي
Of Turkoman origin, he first studied in Damascus and then traveled to Cairo and other cities to study Islam.
In addition to his mastery of hadith, he was also an expert in canonical Qur'anic readings and textual criticism. He went blind roughly seven years before his death, and died in Damascus in 748 AH[1] (al-A`lam (y136), 5.326; Kitab al-kaba'ir (y36), 23-25; and Tabaqat al-Shafi`iyya al-kubra (y128), 9.100).
He authored nearly a hundred works, some of them of considerable size
- Major History of Islam ('Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir), 36 volume
- Talkhis al-Mustadrak
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz
- The Lives of Noble Figures (Siyar a`lam al-nubala'), 23 volume
- Tadhhib al-Tahdhib [1]
- Kabaa'ir
- Al-Kashif fi Asma' Rijal al-Kutub al-Sittah [1]
- Kitab al-'Uluww
- ^ a b c d http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/scienceofhadith/asa3.html
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- ^ Hoberman, Barry (September-October 1982). "The Battle of Talas", Saudi Aramco World, p. 26-31. Indiana University.
- ^ Michael Lecker. Studia Islamica, No. 81 (1995), pp. 71-100.
- ^ Steven C. Judd. International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2 (May, 1999), pp. 161-184.
