Ibn Kathir

Ibn Kathir

human

Ein sex anaa gender	male
Name in native language	إسماعيل بن عُمر بن كثير بن ضَوْ بن درع القرشي الحَصْلي البُصروي الدمشقي الشافعي
Name wey dem give am	Ismail
Nickname	ابن كثير الدمشقي, عماد الدين, أبو الفداء
Ein date of birth	1301
Place dem born am	Bosra, Daraa
Date wey edie	1373
Place wey edie	Damascus
Place wey dem bury am	Sufism cemetery
Relative	Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi
Native language	Arabic
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign	Arabic
Ein occupation	muhaddith, Islamic jurist, mufassir, historian, exegete
Ein field of work	history of Islam, science of hadith, tafsir, fiqh
Employer	Q16118091, Tankiziyya, Nur al-Din Madrasa, Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, al-Salihiyya
Student of	Ibn Taymiyyah, Al-Dhahabi, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi, al-Dimyāṭī
Honorific prefix	Al-Imam, al-Hafidh
Honorific suffix	rahimahullah
Religion anaa worldview	Islam
Madhhab	Shafi'i

Abu al-Fida Isma'il ibn Umar ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi (Arabic: أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير الدمشقي, romanized: Abū al-Fidā' Ismā'īl ibn 'Umar ibn Kathīr al-Dimashqī; c. 1300–1373), dem know simply as Ibn Kathir, na he be an Arab Islamic exegete, historian den scholar. An expert on tafsir (Quranic exegesis), tarikh (history) den fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), he be considered a leading authority on Sunni Islam.

Born insyd Bostra, Mamluk Sultanate, Ibn Kathir ein teachers dey include al-Dhahabi den Ibn Taymiyya. He wrep several books, wey dey include a fourteen-volume universal history dem title al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya (Arabic: البداية والنهاية).

Ein renowned tafsir, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, be recognized for ein critical approach to Israʼiliyyat, especially among Western Muslims den Wahhabi scholars. Ein methodology largely derive from ein teacher Ibn Taymiyya, den dey differ from dat of oda earlier renowned exegetes such as Tabari. He adhere to de Athari school of Islamic theology wich reject rationalistic theology in favor of strict textualism insyd de interpretation of de Quran den de hadith.

Biography

Na ein full name be Abū l-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar ibn Kaṯīr (أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير‎) wey he get de laqab (epithet) of ʿImād ad-Dīn (عماد الدين‎, 'pillar of the faith'). Ein family dey trace ein lineage back to de tribe of Quraysh. Dem born am insyd Mijdal, a village on de outskirts of de city of Busra, insyd de east of Damascus, Syria, around about AH 701 (AD 1300/1). He loose ein poppie at de age of three, insyd AH 703 / AD 1303. He receive ein first lessons of Islamic jurisprudence from ein elder bro, Kamal al-Din Abd al-Wahhab. Ibn Taymiyya den Al-Dhahabi teach am.

Insyd later life, he cam be blind. He attribute ein blindness to working late at night on de Musnad of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal in an attempt to rearrange am topically rather dan by narrator. He die insyd February 1373 (AH 774) insyd Damascus. Dem bury am next to ein teacher Ibn Taymiyya.

Read further

• Norman Calder, 'Tafsir from Tabari to Ibn Kathir, Problems in the description of a genre, illustrated with reference to the story of Abraham', in: G. R. Hawting / Abdul-Kader A. Shareef (eds.): Approaches to the Qur'an, London 1993, pp. 101–140.
• Jane Dammen-McAuliffe, 'Quranic Hermeneutics, The views of al-Tabari and Ibn Kathir', in: Andrew Rippin (ed.): Approaches to the history of the interpretation of the Qur'an, Oxford 1988, pp.& nbs al hafid ibn kathir is not ash,ai

External links

• The Aqidah of Ibn Kathir
• Mawlid Rasul Allah ﷺ Ibn Kathir's book on the Mawlid in English