Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi ( ar , تقي الدين أبي الطيب محمد بن أحمد الفاسي, 8 September 1373, in

Mecca Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow v ...

Hejaz The Hejaz (, also ; ar, ٱلْحِجَاز, al-Ḥijāz, lit=the Barrier, ) is a region in the west of Saudi Arabia. It includes the cities of Mecca, Medina, Jeddah, Tabuk, Yanbu, Taif, and Baljurashi. It is also known as the "Western Prov ...

– 6 July 1429, in

) was an Arab

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

scholar, hafith, faqih,

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, and

Maliki The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as prima ...

qadi A qāḍī ( ar, قاضي, Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, cadi, kadi, or kazi) is the magistrate or judge of a '' sharīʿa'' court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and mino ...

(judge) in

. He is best known for his works on the history of

and its rulers and notable natives, which reached around 18 works. He also wrote on the genealogies of some Arab tribes of

Tihamah Tihamah or Tihama ( ar, تِهَامَةُ ') refers to the Red Sea coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb. Etymology Tihāmat is the Proto-Semitic language's term for 'sea'. Tiamat (or Tehom, in mas ...

Life

He was born on Thursday, 8 September 1373 in

, now

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, but spent part of his early life in

Medina Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the Holiest sites in Islam, second-holiest city in Islam, ...

He eventually returned to Mecca where he took knowledge from its scholars. His family claimed descent from the Islamic prophet

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mon ...

through his grandson,

Hasan ibn Ali Hasan ibn Ali ( ar, الحسن بن علي, translit=Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī; ) was a prominent early Islamic figure. He was the eldest son of Ali and Fatima and a grandson of the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad. He ...

. He was a teacher of Maliki fiqh at the Ghiyathiyyah Madrasah in Makkah, which was considered one of the best Islamic institutions in the country and was funded by the

Sultan of Bengal The Sultanate of Bengal ( Middle Bengali: শাহী বাঙ্গালা ''Shahī Baṅgala'', Classical Persian: ''Saltanat-e-Bangālah'') was an empire based in Bengal for much of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. It was the domina ...

Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah Ghiyasuddin A'zam Shah ( bn, গিয়াসউদ্দীন আজম শাহ, fa, ) was the third Sultan of Bengal and the Ilyas Shahi dynasty. He was one of the most prominent medieval Bengali sultans. He established diplomatic relatio ...

. He went blind four years before his death in 1425 AD. He died on Wednesday 6 July 1429 at the age of 55 in

Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plat ...

, now

Works

* ''Al-ʻIqd al-thamīn fī tārīkh al-Balad al-Amīn'' (العقد الثمين فى تاريخ البلد الأمين): His largest and most important work, and probably the largest in the field of Meccan history, where he compiled the biographies of Meccans from the early days of Islam up until his time. * ''Shifāʼ al-gharām bi-akhbār al-Balad al-Ḥarām'' (شفاء الغرام بأخبار البلد الحرام) * ''Al-Muqniʻ min akhbār al-mulūk wa-al-khulafāʼ wa-wulāt Makkah al-shurafā'' (المقنع من أخبار الملوك والخلفاء وولاة مكة الشرفاء) * ''Al-Zuhūr al-muqtaṭafah min tārīkh Makkah al-Musharrafah'' (الزهور المقتطفة من تاريخ مكة المشرفة) * ''Dhayl al-taqīīd fī rūāh al-sunan wa al-masānīd'' (ذيل التقييد بمعرفة رواة السنن والمسانيد)

References

Hadith scholars 15th-century Moroccan historians Muslim scholars of Islamic jurisprudence Maliki fiqh scholars Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam 15th-century Muslim scholars of Islam 1373 births 1429 deaths 15th-century jurists 15th-century Arabs 14th-century Arabs 14th-century Moroccan historians {{Islamic-scholar-stub