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Ṭabaqāt · Çeker §3.5
Wafayāt al-Aʿyān
وفيات الأعيان
al-Ṭarsūsī الطرسوسي
Najm al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Ṭarsūsī
A four-and-a-half-folio poem by the Ḥanafī chief judge of Damascus giving the death dates of about 124 Ḥanafīs, each encoded in letters written in red, as an aid to memory.
Links The book records no link between this work and the others on the list.
300 500 700 900 1100 1300
Died 758/1357 (AH/CE)
Written in Damascus, Syria
School Ḥanafī
Language Arabic (verse)
Survival In print Copies, editions Damascus, Ẓāhiriyya 9625; Köprülü, Mehmed Âsım Bey 84/3. Published with a Turkish translation by İsmail Şık.
The 8th century AH
The tradition restarts in Mamluk Syria and Egypt, and al-Qurashī writes al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya.
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“al-Ṭarsūsī, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān”, Hanafi Biographical Atlas, https://hanafiatlas.com/works/al-tarsusi-wafayat-al-ayan.html. Data after H. Çeker, Traditions of Biographies in the Hanafi Doctrine, §3.5.