Ibn Rajab

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Zain ad-Dīn Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd ar-Rahmān ibn Ahmad Ibn Rajab ( Arabic زين الدين أبو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن أحمد ابن رجب, DMG Zain ad-Dīn Abū l-Faraǧ ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad ; * 1335/36 in Baghdad ; † July 14, 1393 in Damascus ) was a Hanbali traditional and legal scholar. The short name Ibn Rajab is a nickname given to him by his grandfather because he was born in the Islamic month of Rajab .

Life

Both Ibn Rajab's grandfather and father were imams . The family was wealthy and educated. After Ibn Rajab was trained for many years in Damascus, Jerusalem and Mecca and made the law school of Ahmad ibn Hanbal as a guideline, he taught at an Islamic madrasa . After this teaching position was withdrawn from him, he taught in Damascus in the field of prophetic traditions, which are referred to in Arabic as " hadiths " . Ibn ar-Risaam, who later became the Mufti of Egypt, was one of his disciples . Ibn Rajab died on Ramadan 4 765 H (July 14, 1393) in Damascus and was buried the next day in the Baab as-Sagheer cemetery.

Works

  • Ǧāmiʿ al-ʿulūm wa'l-ḥikam fī šarḥ ḫamsīna ḥadīṯan min Ǧawāmiʿ al-kalim . It is a commentary on fifty particularly succinct sayings of the prophets. His commentary on the fourth hadith of the narrative collection of an-Nawawī is considered to be groundbreaking to this day. An English translation of the work is: The Compendium of Knowledge and Wisdom . Turath Publishing, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-9547380-2-0 .
  • Sīrat ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz , hagiographic work on ʿAbd al-Malik, the son of the Umaiyad caliph ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz . The work was published by ʿIffat Wiṣāl Ḥamza in Beirut in 1993. It is also contained in the four-volume collection of writings of Ibn Rajab, which Ṭalʿat ibn Fuʾād al-Ḥulwānī has created, see there Vol. II, pp. 475-510. Digitized .
  • Kitāb aḏ- Ḏail ʿalā Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila , Tabaqāt work on the Hanbalites, continuation of the Tabaqāt work by Ibn Abī Yaʿlā.
  • Ibn Rajab could no longer complete his commentary in seven volumes on the hadith collection Saheeh al-Buchari .
  • The Heirs of the Prophets. Starlatch Llc, 2006, ISBN 1929694121 (English)

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Ibn Rajab
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zain ad-Din, Abu al-Faraj 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn' Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Abi l-Barakat Mas'ud al-Sulami al-Baghdadi al-Hanbali; Ibn Rajab
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Islamic scholar and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1335 or 1336
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1393
Place of death Damascus