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Al-Dhahabi, Historian of narrators

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ScholarHistorian of narrators

Al-Dhahabiالذهبي

Approximate dateDamascus

A Damascus historian who wrote the lives of thousands of scholars and narrators.

Of Turkmen descent and the son of a goldsmith, he studied with hundreds of teachers, women among them. His Siyar A'lam al-Nubala and Tarikh al-Islam judge narrators with balanced care. He lost his sight in his last years.

What grew out of it?

His dictionaries of narrators are still the working tools of hadith study.

Who else is linked?

DamascusIbn TaymiyyahIbn KathirAl-Hakim al-NishapuriZaynab bint al-KamalMamluk Sultanate

Who lived at the same time?

Osman IOljeituAlauddin KhaljiAl-Nasir MuhammadGhazanMansa MusaOzbeg KhanAl-Ashraf Khalil

Source: history · Wikipedia

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