Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi

Yusuf al-Mizzi
Born	654 AH[1] Mizza, Aleppo, now Syria
Died	743 AH[2] Damascus, now Syria
Era	Medieval era /(Midlled Ages
Region	Syrian scholar
School	Shafi'i
Main interests	Ilm ar-Rijal
Influenced Ibn Kathir

Jamal al-Din, Abi al-Hajjaj, Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi (Arabic: يوسف بن عبدالرحمن المزي‎‎) was an Islamic scholar from the Levant.

Biography

Al-Mizzi was born in Aleppo and grew up and settled in Damascus. He is the father-in-law of Ibn Kathir.^[3] He died at Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyyah in Damascus in the year 1342 C.E. He was buried in the Sufiyyah graveyard.^[4]

Works

• Tahdhib al-Kamal fi asma' al-rijal: a reworking of Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal, a collection of hadith narrator biographies.^[4]
• Tuhfah al-Ashraf: an index of the hadith contained in the Six major Hadith collections based upon the tarf, or beginning segment, of those hadith.^[4]

References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20061205212315/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beh/islam_hadith_melv.html. Archived from the original on December 5, 2006. Retrieved September 22, 2006. Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. Laoust, Henri (2012). ""Ibn Taymiyya." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.". BrillOnline. BrillOnline. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
3. Ibn Kathir I, Le Gassick T (translator), Fareed M (reviewer) (2000). The Life of the Prophet Muhammad : English translation of Ibn Kathir's Al Sira Al Nabawiyya.
4. Al-Risalah al-Mustatrafah., by al-Kattani, pg. 208, Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah, Beirut, seventh edition, 2007.