Al-Dhahabi

Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was a Syrian Sunni Muslim historian, biographer, and hadith scholar. He authored major biographical and historical works including Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, and Tarikh al-Islam.

Among his best-known teachers and scholarly associates were al-Mizzi, al-Birzali, and Ibn Taymiyya.

Notable works: Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Tārīkh al-Islām wa-wafayāt al-mashāhīr wa-al-aʻlām, Tadhkirat al-ḥuffāẓ, al-Kabāʾir, Mīzān al-iʻtidāl fī naqd al-rijāl, Kitab al-'uluw lil-'Ali al-Ghaffar, Kitāb al-ʿarsh, al-Ṭibb al-nabawī

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