Majd ad-Din ibn Taymiyyah

Abu al-Barkat Majd ad-Din ibn Taymiyyah (Arabic: عبد السلام بن عبد الله بن الخضر بن محمد بن تيمية الحراني، أبو البركات مجد الدين‎) (1194 - 1255) was Muslim scholar muhaddith, theologian, judge, jurisconsult.[1] He was a father of Shihab al-Din Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyyah and the grandfather of Ibn Taymiyyah.

For other uses, see Ibn Taymiyyah (disambiguation).

He was reputable scholars of the Hanbali school of law.[2] He had two sons: Shihab al-Din Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyyah (d. 1284) and Fakhr al-Din (d. 1225).

Biography

He was born in Harran in 590 AH. Harran was a city part of the Sultanate of Rum, now Harran is a small city on the border of Syria and Turkey, currently in Şanlıurfa province.[3] At the beginning of the Islamic period, Harran was located in the land of the Mudar tribe (Diyar Mudar).[4] Before its destruction by the Mongols, Harran was also well known since the early days of Islam for its Hanbali school and tradition,[5] to which Ibn Taymiyyah's family belonged.[3]

It taught Hadith in the Levant, the Hijaz and Iraq, and in addition to his country Harran in the Levant, he was a member of his time in the knowledge of the Hanbali school of thought. One of his books “Al-Muntaqa fi Ahadith Al-Ahkam” was explained by Al-Shawkani, and one of his books was also “Al-Muharram fi Al-Fiqh”, which is in the Hanbali jurisprudence (explained by Ibn Abdul-Haq).[6]

References
  1. Nadvi, Syed Suleiman (2012). "Muslims and Greek Schools of Philosophy". Islamic Studies. 51 (2): 218. JSTOR 23643961. All his works are full of bitter condemnation of philosophy and yet he was a great philosopher himself.
  2. Laoust, Henri (2012). ""Ibn Taymiyya." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition". BrillOnline. Archived from the original on 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
  3. Hastings, James (1908). Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics. Volume, 7. Morrison and Gibb Limited. p. 72.
  4. Canard, Marius & Cahen, Claude (1965). "Diyār Mudar". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume II: C–G. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 347–348. OCLC 495469475.
  5. Al-Dhahabi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad. Tadhkirat al-huffaz. Haidarabad. p. 48.
  6. "Biography of a Scholar". www2.gvsu.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
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