Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi | |
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| Title | Taqiyy ud-Dīn |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1146 CE/541 AH[citation needed] |
| Died | 1203 CE/600 AH[1] |
| Resting place | Al-Qurāfah cemetery, Egypt |
| Religion | Islam |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Region | Ash-Sham |
| Jurisprudence | Hanbali[2] |
| Creed | Athari |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith |
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| Occupation | Islamic scholar |
| Muslim leader | |
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Abd al-Ghani ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi (Arabic: عبد الغني بن عبد الوحيد المقدسي, romanized: ʿAbd al-Ghāni ibn ʿAbd al-Waḥīd al-Maqdisī; 1146 – 1203) was a classical Sunni Islamic scholar and a prominent hadith master.[4] He was born in 1146 CE (541 AH) in the village of Jummail in Palestine. He studied with scholars in Damascus; many of whom were from his own extended family. He studied with the Imam of Tasawwuf, Shaykh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani. He was the first person to establish a school on Mount Qasioun near Damascus. He died in 1203 CE (600 AH).[5]
He was a relative of Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi, as his mother and Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi's grandmother were sisters.[6] He had three sons named Muhammad, Abdullah and Abdur-Rahman, all of whom became prominent scholars. The scholar, Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi was the maternal cousin of Abdul-Ghani, and Ibn Qudāmah described his association with Abdul-Ghani as:
"My friend in childhood and in seeking knowledge, and never did we race to goodness except that he would precede me to it, with the exception of [a] small [number of occasions]"[7]
He was the author of Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal, a collection of biographies of hadith narrators within the Islamic discipline of biographical evaluation.