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Qassim Bin Mohammed al Barzali: Tarikh al Barzali
(History of Barzali) (1339)
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Taken from: كتاب تاريخ البرزالي المقتفي لتاريخ أبي شامة - ت تدمري علم الدين البرزالي
691 - On the night of Thursday the twenty-fourth of Dhul-Qi’dah (5), the Sheikh, the jurist, the imam, the righteous, Shams al-Din, Abu Abdullah, Muhammad bin Ali bin Abi Bakr bin Ali bin al-Hasan bin Ahmed bin Yusuf bin Asad al-Tamimi al-Jawhari (10), died. Al-Kalli's father, Al-Shafi'i, prayed over him on Thursday afternoon at the Damascus Mosque, and he was buried in the Bani Al-Shirji cemetery in Bab Al-Saghir (6). His birth was on Wednesday the twenty-eighth of the month of Rajab (7) in the year six hundred and forty-eight (1250AD) in the city of Shiraz (in Iran), seven days between him and Shiraz.
His father was from the city of Kilwa, an island in the sea that belonged to the Zanj, and he was a merchant who memorized the Qur’an. As for him, he was a good old man who regularly prayed at the Damascus Mosque. He traveled in his youth to Kash (4) and Hormuz (3), then to Dhofar (in Yemen) and Aden, and entered the Hijaz (1), and performed Hajj more than once (and Jawwar) (and Jawwar). He toured the Hijaz, then returned to Aden, then traveled to Al-Sumnat (2) in India.
He heard about it from the hadith scholar Kamal al-Din Ahmad ibn al-Dakhamisi (8). He narrated it to us on his authority, then he traveled to Maqdashuh, a city on the sea coast, and resided there for a period, then to Hormuz (3) and Kash (4), and entered Basra and resided there for a period, then entered Baghdad and studied there, then returned to Basra, then headed. From there he spent with the Arabs (in) the wilderness, arriving in Hama (9), and entering Damascus in the year six hundred and eighty-eight (1289AD), and he resided in the Bathari school for a long period as a jurist, then he became a teaching assistant there in Al-Badriya (Al-Bathari School), and he was keen on recitation. The testimony is related to that, and his death occurred in the repetition home of the aforementioned school.
(1) Hijaz: the province of Mecca.
(2) Sumnat India: The Somnath temple, also called Somanātha temple or Deo Patan, is located in Prabhas Patan (also sometimes called Somnath), Veraval in Gujarat, India. One of the most sacred pilgrimage sites for the Hindus.
(3) Hormuz: is a city on the island of Hormuz off the coast of Iran; important in former times as trade center.
(4) Kesh; Qish: Kish island is located in the Persian Gulf, 19 km from mainland Iran, and has an area of approximately 91 km2. It was very important in early Abbasid times.
(5) Dhul-Qi’dah: also spelled Dhu al-Qi'dah or Zu al-Qa'dah, is the eleventh month in the Islamic calendar. Dhu al-Qadah.
(6) Bab Al-Saghir also called Goristan-e-Ghariban, refers to one of the seven gates in the Old City of Damascus.
(7) Rajab is the seventh month of the Islamic calendar.
(8) Kamal al-Din Ahmad b. Abi al-Fada’il b. Abi al-Majid al-Hamawi b. al-Dakhmisi, he died somewhere in India. (600/1204—671/1273). Known as Hadith collector. Also mentioned by Al-Dhahabi 1348.
(9) Hama is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria.
(10) This is the Muhammad b. ‘Ali b. Abi Bakr, the Great Jurist, the scholar, Shams al-Din, al-Tamimi, al-Maqdishawi al-Shafi‘i (648/1250—718/1318). He is mentioned by al-Asqalani (1448); Al-Dhahabi (1348); Ibn Nasir al-Din (1348); Al-Barihi Al-Sukski Yemeni (1499); Qassim Bin Mohammed al Barzali (1339).
Ibn Nasir al-Din 1438 has the following to say about him: Faqih Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ali bin Abi Bakr al-Maqdashi, is a teaching assistant in Al-Badriya (Al-Bathari School) with Sheikh Alaa Al-Din Al-Maqdisi, where it is said: Al-Maqdashawi, Oh, tell us on the authority of Ibn Al-Dhakhamisi; I said: It is the son of Ali bin Abi Bakr bin Ali bin Hassan bin Ahmed bin Yusuf bin Asad al-Tamimi Jawhari, known as Ibn Balawi, attributed to Mekdhoh (Mogadishu): The famous town of Habashah belonging to Zanzibar.