Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir
Medieval Arab biographer, linguist and historian
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.
Family
Majd ad-Dīn was one of three brothers from a wealthy family of scholars, all known as Ibn al-Athīr of Jazirat Ibn ‘Umar and Mosul. The other two being Ali ibn al-Athir and Diyā' ad-Dīn, who was also an historian. The father Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Karim was an official of the Zangid government. The Ibn al-Athīr family were Arab, or Kurdish, of the Shayban lineage of the large and influential Arab tribe Banu Bakr, who lived across upper Mesopotamia, and gave their name to the city of Diyar Bakr.
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