Abd al-Khaliq bin Asad
- Died
- 564 AH
- Born in
- Damascus
Abd al-Khaliq ibn Asad (d. 564 AH / 1168 CE; another report gives 583 AH) was a Damascus-based hadith scholar and Hanafi jurist known for compiling a dictionary of his teachers, al-Mu'jam .
Lineage and Education
Abu Muhammad Taj al-Din Abd al-Khaliq ibn Asad ibn Thabit was born in Damascus to a family originating from Tripoli . He was also known by the epithet al-Jawwal . He initially studied jurisprudence within the Shafi'i school before transferring to the Hanafi school under Burhan al-Din al-Balkhi . In addition to studying fiqh under al-Balkhi and the judge Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Hiti, he traveled extensively across various regions in pursuit of hadith and jurisprudence, including Baghdad, Hamadhan, and Isfahan .
His teachers included Jamal al-Islam ibn al-Muslim, Nasr al-Lidd al-Massisi, Ibn Tawus, and Abd al-Karim ibn Hamza in Damascus; Ismail ibn al-Samarqandi, Abu Muhammad Sibt al-Khayyat, Abd al-Wahhab al-Anmati, and Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Muslima in Baghdad; Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Alawi in Kufa; Hibat Allah ibn Ukht al-Tawil in Hamadhan; and Ismail al-Hammami in Isfahan . He also compiled a personal dictionary of his teachers (al-Mu'jam), in which he arranged alphabetically the names of the male and female scholars from whom he had directly heard transmissions, selecting sample narrations and short verses of poetry for each . He composed poetry himself, samples of which were recorded in literary anthologies such as Zinat al-Dahr .
Career and Students
In Damascus, Abd al-Khaliq assumed teaching posts at al-Madrasah al-Sadiriyyah and al-Madrasah al-Mu'iniyyah, and he held a regular assembly for preaching and religious exhortation (majlis al-tadhkir) . Among those who transmitted from him were his son Ghalib ibn Abd al-Khaliq and Ismail ibn Sulayman al-Askari .
Death
Abd al-Khaliq died in Damascus in Muharram 564 AH (1168 CE) . Another report places his death in Damascus in the year 583 AH .
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List of Works
al-Mu'jam (The Dictionary) is a 6th-century AH biographical dictionary of hadith teachers. The work documents direct teachers, providing samples of their transmitted narrations alongside brief biographical identifications.