Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi
{{Short description|Syrian Islamic Scholar (1256–1341 CE)}}
{{Infobox religious biography
| region = Syrian scholar
| era = Mamluk Era
| image =
| caption =
| name = Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf al-Kalbī al-Quḍā'ī al-Mizzī
| other_names = Al-Ḥāfiẓ, Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mizzī
| birth_date = 1256 AD (654 AH){{cite web|url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beh/islam_hadith_melv.html |access-date=September 22, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205212315/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beh/islam_hadith_melv.html |archive-date=December 5, 2006}}
| birth_place = al-Mizza, now Syria
| death_date = 1341 AD (742 AH){{Cite web |url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/ibn-taymiyya-SIM_3388 |title="Ibn Taymiyya." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. |date=2012 |access-date=2015-01-28 |website=BrillOnline |last=Laoust |first=Henri}}
| religion = Islam
| denomination = Sunni
| Maddhab = Shafi'i{{sfn|Juynboll|1990|p=212}}
| Creed = Maturidi
| main_interests = Ilm ar-Rijal
| influences = Al-Shafi'i, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Al-Dimyati,{{cite book|author=Al-Dimyati|title=THE REWARDS FOR GOOD DEEDS المتجر الرابح [انكليزي]|publisher=Dar al-Kotob al-'Ilmiyya|date=2016|isbn=9782745176554|pages=15}} Ibn Taymiyya{{Cite journal|last=Makdisi |first=George |year= 1962 |title=Ashʿarī and the Ash'arites in Islamic Religious History I |journal=Studia Islamica |volume=17 |issue=17 | location =Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden | page=79 | publisher= Maisonneuve & Larose |doi=10.2307/1595001 |jstor=1595001 }}
| influenced = Al-Dhahabī, Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī, Ibn Kathīr
| notable_ideas =
| death_place = Damascus, now Syria
| creed = Ash'ari{{Cite journal|last=Makdisi |first=George |year= 1962 |title=Ashʿarī and the Ash'arites in Islamic Religious History I |journal=Studia Islamica |volume=17 |issue=17 | location =Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden | page=78 | publisher= Maisonneuve & Larose |doi=10.2307/1595001 |jstor=1595001 }}
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Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Kalbī al-Quḍā'ī al-Mizzī, ({{langx|ar|يوسف بن عبد الرحمن المزي}}), also called Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī al-Ḥajjāj, was a Syrian muhaddith and the foremost `Ilm al-rijāl Islamic scholar.
Life
Al-Mizzī was born near Aleppo in 1256 under the reign of the last Ayyubid emir An-Nasir Yusuf. From 1260 the region was ruled by the na'ib al-saltana (viceroys) of the Mamluk Sultanate. In childhood he moved with his family to the village of al-Mizza outside Damascus, where he was educated in Qur'ān and fiqh. {{sfn|Juynboll|1990|p=212}}
In his twenties he began his studies to become a muḥaddith and learned from the masters. His fellow pupil and life-long friend was Taqī al-Dīn ibn Taymiyya. It was also Taymiyya's ideological influence, which although contrary to his own Shāfi'ī legalist inclination, that led to a stint in jail.
Despite his affiliation with Ibn Taymiyya he became head of the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ashrafiyya, a leading ḥadīth academy in Damascus, in 1319. And although he professed the Ash'arī doctrine suspicion continued about his true beliefs.{{sfn|Juynboll|1990|p=212}} He travelled across the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, Syria ({{lang|ar|الشَّام}}), and Ḥijāz and became the greatest `Ilm al-rijāl ({{lang|ar|عِلْمُ الرِّجال}}) scholar of the Muslim world and an expert grammarian and philologist of Arabic.{{sfn|Juynboll|1990|p=212}} He died at Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyyah in Damascus in 1341/2 and was buried in the Sufiyyah graveyard.{{ws|Al-Risalah al-Mustatrafah|}}, by al-Kattani, pg. 208, Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah, Beirut, seventh edition, 2007.
Pupils{{sfn|Juynboll|1990|p=212}}
- Al-Dhahabī
- 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Subkī
- Ismā'īl ibn Kathīr {{snd}} Ibn Kathir married a daughter of al-Mizzī.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ul73yY_htWAC&pg=PR15 |title=The Life of the Prophet Muhammad : English translation of Ibn Kathir's Al Sira Al Nabawiyya |author=Ibn Kathir I, Le Gassick T (translator), Fareed M (reviewer) | year = 2000|publisher=Garnet |isbn=9781859641422 }}
- Ibn al-FuratFozia Bora, Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World: The Value of Chronicles as Archives, The Early and Medieval Islamic World (London: I.B. Tauris, 2019), p. 38; {{ISBN|978-1-7845-3730-2}}.
- Najm ad-Din al-Tufi
Works
- Tahdhīb al-kamāl fī asmā' al-rijāl; biographical lexicon and comprehensive reworking of Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal, a collection of narrator biographies of the transmitters of isnāds in the Six major Hadith collections and others, based upon the tarf (beginning segment) of the hadith. The Tahdhīb includes Ruwāt kuttub al-sitta. Al-Asqalānī and others wrote compendia of this work.{{sfn|Juynboll|1990|p=212}}
- Tuḥfat al-ashraf bi-Ma'rifat al-Aṭraf; alphabetically indexed encyclopaedia of the musnads of the first generation transmitters, the Companions of the Prophet. An indispensable resource for the study of Muslim tradition that comprises al-Nasā'ī's Al-Sunan al-kubrā.{{sfn|Juynboll|1990|p=212}}
References
{{wikisourcelang|ar|مؤلف:المزي|Al-Mizzi}}
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Brockelmann|author-link=Carl Brockelmann|first=Carl|title=Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur|place=Berlin|publisher=E Felber|year=1902|volume=II|section=II|page=64 f|isbn=9789004104075 |language=en |url=https://archive.org/details/geschichtederar02brocgoog/page/n81 }}
- {{cite book|last=Dhahabī (al-)|author-link=Al-Dhahabi|first= Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad| title= Tadhkirāt al-ḥuffāẓ |editor1-last=Kawtharī|editor1-first= Muḥammad Zāhid ibn al-Ḥasan| editor2-last= Ḥāmid|editor2-first= Abū Bakr ʻAbd al-Karīm| editor3-last=Ṭahṭāwī|editor3-first= Aḥmad Rāfiʻ|place=Bayrūt Lubnān|publisher=Dār Iḥyāʼ al-Turāth al-ʻArabī|year=2002|language=ar|pages=1498 ff}}
- {{cite book|last=Subkī|author-link=Taqi al-Din al-Subki|first= Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī| title= al-Shāfī'iyya al-kubrā |editor1-last=Ṭanāḥī|editor1-first= Maḥmūd Muḥammad|editor2-last=Ḥulw|editor2-first= ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ Muḥammad|volume=X|pages=395–430|place=Cairo|publisher= ʻĪsá al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī|year=1964|language=ar |oclc=23510000}}
- {{cite book|last=Asqalānī (al-)|author-link=Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani|first= Ibn Ḥajar| title= Dhayl Al-Durar al-Kamīna |editor-last= Darwīsh|editor-first= ʻAdnān|place=Al-Qāhirah|publisher= al-Munaẓẓamah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Tarbiyah wa-al-Thaqāfah wa-al-ʻUlūm, Maʻhad al-Makhṭuṭat al-ʻArabīyah|year=1992|volume=v|pages=233–7|oclc=27210371}}
- {{cite book|last=Ḥanbalī (al-)|author-link=Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali|first= Ibn al-'Imād| title= Shadharāt al-dhahab |place= Al-Qāhirah|publisher=Maktabat al-Qudsī |orig-year=1931|year=1933|volume= vi|page=136 f |oclc=22865694}}
- {{cite book|last= Mizzī (al-)|first= Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān|title= Mizzī Tahdhīb al-kamāl fī asmā' al-rijāl |editor-last= Ma'rūf |editor-first= Bashshār 'Awwād|place= Beirut|publisher= Muʼassasat al-Risālah|orig-year=1980|year=1992|oclc= 12422024}}
- {{citation|last=Juynboll |first= Gautier H. A.|encyclopedia= Encyclopedia of Islam| title=Al-Mizzī|pages=212–3|place=Leiden|publisher=E. J. Brill|year=1990}}
External links
- [https://www.darultahqiq.com/imam-al-mizzi-brief-incarceration-khalq-afal-al-ibad-imam-al-bukhari/ Imam al-Mizzi, his brief incarceration and the Khalq af'al al-Ibad of Imam al-Bukhari] ({{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20231119092438/https://www.darultahqiq.com/imam-al-mizzi-brief-incarceration-khalq-afal-al-ibad-imam-al-bukhari/|date=19 Nov 2023}})
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