Tārīkh Dimashq

Fātimah Khātūn bint Najm al-Dīn, Salāh al-Dīn's sister, titled "Sitt al-Shām" (al-Shām's Lady), had 35 Mahram relatives who were kings in the Ayyubid Sultanate

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Burhānī (father of Shaykh Sa‘īd) used to sit in al-Tawbah Mosque for long hours worshipping, reading Qur’ān, and doing Dhikr, with his back resting on the mosque's Minbar, which affected the Minbar's wood forming a special mark where he would rest his back [Sh. Dr. Mutī‘ al-Hāfidh in Jāmi‘ al-Tawbah via his uncle Sh. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb -Dibs wa Zayt- al-Hāfidh]

The 7 famous historical mosques in Damascus: Umayyad Mosque, Yalbugha Mosque, al-Tawbah Mosque, al-Daqqāq Mosque, Bāb Musallā Mosque, al-Hanābilah Mosque, Tinkiz Mosque -Muhammad b. Ahmad Dahmān

Some old 20th century Damascene lullabies

When ‘Abd al-Hakīm al-Afghānī was asked by a student what the purpose of learning Usūl al-Fiqh is, he answered: For Ijtihād. The student inquired: But don't they say that the door of Ijtihād is closed? To which he sharply responded: And who closed it? May Allāh guide you! But the student in your lands claims Ijtihād while he has not yet read Nūr al-Īdāh!

The first ever book printed in the Dūmaniyyah printing house in Damascus, in 10/Rabi‘/1281 - 12/8/1864: The Awrād of ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulsī, under the authority of Shaykh al-Hanābila ‘Abd al-Salām al-Shattī

Sh. ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Khatīb (d. 1288) had four sons: Sh. Abu al-Khayr, Sh. Abu al-Faraj, Sh. Abu al-Fath, and Sh. Abu al-Nasr, and he decided to teach each of them a different Madhab; Sh. Abu al-Faraj studied the Hanafī Madhab with Sh. ‘Abdullāh al-Halabī, Sh. Abu al-Khayr studied the Shāfi‘ī Madhab with his father Sh. ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Khatīb, Sh. Abu al-Fath studied the Hanbalī Madhab with Sh. Hasan al-Shattī, and Sh. Abu al-Nasr studied the Mālikī Madhab with Sh. Mustafā al-Maghribī al-Tihāmī A group of people criticized him for this, but he paid them no attention, until he saw al-Imām al-Shāfi‘ī in his dream who commanded him to return them all to the Shāfi‘ī Madhab And so he returned them, after having each spent 4 years studying their respective Madhab ‘Ulamā’ Dimashq 13th C., 2/687

al-Hibshī's account of Shaykh Badr al-Dīn al-Hasanī's Friday lesson during his visit to Syria: “On Friday, we went to [the Umayyad Mosque] for the Friday prayer, and afterwards we attended the Hadīth lesson of Shaykh Badr al-Dīn It is a great and well-attended lesson, with over 300 people in attendance. The Shaykh mentions each Hadīth with both its Sanad and Matn, then discussed its narrators, then explains its text, and he may sometimes have a Sūfī approach in his explanation, may Allāh be pleased with him and benefit us by him [āmīn] We then got up from the lesson and visited Sayyidunā Yahyā (on him be peace), and it was a great visit with a great many of our brothers...” al-Shāhid al-Maqbūl, 116-117

Mikhail Mishaqa a famous Ottoman-age Syrian Christian Doctor mentions in his memoirs that he studied the Sharh of al-Isāghūjī in Mantiq with the Muftī of Syria Shaykh Mahmūd al-Himzāwī Muntakhabāt, Pg. 131-132

al-Amīr ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jazā’irī's Futūhāt al-Makkiyyah readings used to be attended by a large number of scholars from a plethora of different Tarīqas, some of them: Sh. Muhammad al-Tantāwī, Sh. Muhammad al-Khānī, Sh. ‘Abd al-Majīd al-Khānī (Naqshbandīs) Sh. Muhammad al-Tayyib, Sh. Muhammad al-Mubārak (Khalwatī/Shādhilī) Sh. Ahmad al-Jazā’irī, Sh. Muhammad al-Murtadā al-Jazā’irī, Sh. Muhammad ‘Abd al-Bāqī al-Jazā’irī (Qādirīs) Sh. ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Baytār, Sh. Bahā’ al-Dīn al-Baytār, Sh. ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Baytār (Shādhilīs)

al-Imām al-Nawawī said in the introduction of al-Adhkār: It is recommended that someone who hears of a praiseworthy practice [Fadā’il al-A‘māl] acts on it, even if one time in his life, so that he can be included in its reward

Khalwatī-prescribed Mujarrab Awrād with the Divine Names: For winning hearts: (Yā Ra’ūf, Yā Wadūd, Yā Allāh) 400x after Dhuhr For honor and glory: (Yā Rahmān, Yā Razzāq, Yā Allāh) 715x after Maghrib For repelling tribulation: (Yā Rāfi‘, Yā Māni‘, Yā Allāh) 415x after Fajr For an increase in wealth: (Yā Bāsit, Yā Mu‘izz, Yā Allāh) 288x after ‘Asr [Ibn Kinān, Yawmiyyāt Shāmiyyah, Pg. 420]

Horse-handlers in Ottoman Syria commonly used to hang amulets (which contain Qur’ān or Adhkār) on horses for protection This practice was condemned by scholars since horses get dirty with Najāsah, so scholars, even as old as al-‘Izz Ibn ‘Abd al-Salām, said that it is Harām al-Qāsimī, Qāmūs al-Sinā‘āt al-Shāmiyyah (Pg. 176)

Muhammad Sa‘īd al-Hamwī (d. 1236) instructed his student Ibn ‘Abidīn (d. 1252) to read each night the chapters: Yāsīn, al-Wāqi‘ah, Tabārak, al-Sharh, al-Qadr, al-Zalzalah, al-Takāthur, al-Fīl until al-Nās, and al-Fātihah And he said: My teachers commanded me to read them and gift it to their souls, may Allāh have mercy on them ‘Ulamā’ Dimashq (13th C), 1/260

Rare video from 1945 in which Shaykh Abu al-Yusr ‘Abidīn is seen

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