Muḥammad ibn Makkī | |
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Title | Shams al-Din, al-Shahid al-Awwal |
Personal | |
Born | 1334, Jezzine |
Died | 7 July 1385, Damascus (aged 51) |
Religion | Islam |
Era | Mamluk Sultanate |
Denomination | Shia |
Jurisprudence | Ja'fari |
Creed | Twelver |
Notable work(s) | The Damascene Glitter, The Forty Hadith, The Lessons, others |
Shams al-Dīn (شَمْس ٱلدِّين) Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn Ḥāmid al-Nabaṭī al-ʿĀmilī al-Jizzīnī[1] (1334–1385),[2] better known as al-Shāhīd al-Awwal[1] (Arabic: ٱلشَّهِيد ٱلْأَوَّل, "The First Martyr"), was a Shi'a scholar and the author of al-Lum'ah al-Dimashqiyah (ٱللُّمْعَة ٱلدِّمَشْقِيَّة) and. Although he is neither the first Muslim nor the first Shi'a to die for his religion, he became known as "Shahid al-Awwal" because he was probably the first Shia scholar of such stature to have been killed in a brutal manner.