Al-Dhahabī (b. Rabīʿ II 673/October 1274, d. at the beginning of Dhū l-Qaʿda 748/February 1348) was a widely respected historian, ḥadīth expert, and biographer who lived in Damascus in the early Mamlūk period.
1. Life
Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān b. Qāymāẓ b. ʿAbdallāh al-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī al-Dimashqī al-Shāfiʿī, known as al-Dhahabī or Ibn al-Dhahabī (the…