Ibn Taymiyyah's Full Biography
Taqi al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abd al-Halim ibn Abd al-Salam al-Numeiri al-Harran (661 AH - 728 AH / 1263 AD - 1328 AD), better known as Ibn Taymiyyah. He is a jurist, hadith, commentator, and scholar of a diligent Muslim affiliated with the Hanbali school of thought. He is one of the most prominent Muslim scholars during the second half of the seventh century and the first third of the eighth century AH. Ibn Taymiyyah grew up in Hanbali school and took Hanbali jurisprudence and its origins from his father and grandfather, as he was one of the diligent imams in the doctrine. Ibn Taymiyyah was born in the year 661 AH corresponding to the year 1263 AD in the city of Harran to the Hanbali jurist Abd al-Halim Ibn Taymiyyah and “Sit al-Na’am bint Abd al-Rahman al-Harraniyah”, and his first upbringing grew up in the city of Harran. After he reached the age of seven, his family emigrated to the city of Damascus due to the Tatar raid on it, and that was in the year 667 AH. As soon as...