Ibn Aybak al-Dumyati
- Died
- 749 AH
- Born in
- Damietta
Ibn Aybak al-Dumyati (700–749 AH / 1300–1348 CE) was an Egyptian hadith scholar and historian known for his biographical works and hadith transmissions .
Identity and Education
He was Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Aybak ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Husami al-Dumyati, bearing the honorific Shihab al-Din (also referenced as Shams al-Din and Sharaf al-Din) . He was born in 700 AH (1300 CE) . In pursuit of hadith studies, he heard transmissions across Cairo, Alexandria, and Damascus . Among his notable teachers were al-Dabbusi and al-Subki, for whom he compiled biographical glossaries (maʿajim) .
Scholarly Career and Standing
Ibn Aybak was recognized among contemporary and later scholars as a proficient memorizer (hafiz) and chronicler of transmitter biographies . The historian al-Dhahabi selected a specialized collection (juzʾ) from his hadith narrations .
He was renowned for his precision in recording obituaries and annotating biographical manuscripts . He composed a biographical continuation (dhayl) on Izz al-Din al-Husayni’s Silat al-Takmila li-Wafayat al-Naqala, documenting the deaths of notable figures and scholars from 695 AH until 749 AH . His work served as a primary historical source for subsequent biographical literature: Zayn al-Din al-Iraqi wrote a direct continuation (dhayl) upon it, and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani drew upon it in compiling his biographical dictionary al-Durar al-Kamina .
He also compiled al-Mustafad min Dhayl Tarikh Baghdad, an abridged selection of biographical entries drawn from Ibn al-Najjar’s continuation of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi’s history of Baghdad . Additionally, he commenced a work on hadith verification entitled Takhrij Ahadith al-Rafiʿi, but died before completing it .
Death
Ibn Aybak died in Egypt during the Black Death pandemic in Ramadan 749 AH (1348 CE) .
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List of Works
al-Mustafad min Dhayl Tarikh Baghdad (What Is Benefited from the Continuation of the History of Baghdad) is a biographical compilation consisting of selected biographies extracted from Ibn al-Najjar's biographical continuation of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi's history. Arranged alphabetically, it produces a concentrated collection of biographical entries for notable figures and scholars associated with Baghdad.