Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir (1149–1210)

Born 1149 CE, died 1210 CE.

Abū l-Saʿādāt al-Mubārak b. Muḥammad (al-Athīr) b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Shaybānī al-Jazarī al-Mawṣilī (Arabic: أبو السعادة المبارك بن محمد (الأثير) بن محمد بن عبد الكريم بن عبد الواحد الشيباني الجزري الموصلّي), commonly known as Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir (Arabic: مجد الدين ابن الأثير) was a prominent traditionist, lexicographer, philologist, and a jurist of the Shafi'i school. He is regarded as one of the leading hadith scholars of the seventh century A.H.

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