Zaynab bint al-Kamal, Hadith teacher of Damascus: Scholar in Islamic History

Scholar

ScholarHadith teacher of Damascus

Zaynab bint al-Kamalزينب بنت الكمال

1248-1339 CE (646-740 AH)Approximate dateDamascus

A Damascus teacher who held licences from hundreds of scholars and taught for most of her ninety years.

Her family enrolled her for teaching licences as a small child, so she carried authority from scholars long dead by the time she taught. She never married, and students filled her lessons, reading whole books with her.

What grew out of it?

Her name appears in the chains of many later hadith scholars.

Who else is linked?

Damascus Ibn Battuta Al-Dhahabi Mamluk Sultanate

Who lived at the same time?

Al-Ashraf Khalil Ghazan Qalawun Malik al-Salih Alauddin Khalji Oljeitu Ghiyath al-Din Balban Osman I

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