Scholars / Al-Dhahabi
Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Dhahabi (673–748 AH / 1274–1348) is the historian of the hadith folk. Siyar a'lam al-nubala, Tadhkirat al-huffaz, and Mizan al-i'tidal remain the first books opened for rijal.
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About the Shaykh
Born1274
Died1348
PlaceDamascus
MadhhabShafi'i
Scholar ofHadith, Seerah
CreedAthari
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Dhahabi (673–748 AH / 1274–1348) is the historian of the hadith folk. Siyar a'lam al-nubala, Tadhkirat al-huffaz, and Mizan al-i'tidal remain the first books opened for rijal.
He was Shafi'i in fiqh and Athari in creed, and he praised Ibn Taymiyyah while remaining a hadith critic in his own right.
Legacy
The biographical backbone for Athari hadith study.
Areas of knowledge
HadithThe speech and practice of the Prophet ﷺ, kept with the chains and the fiqh that follows them.
SeerahThe life of the Prophet ﷺ and the generations who carried his way.