- A brief about the book: *(Inba’ al-Ghumr bi Anba’ al-‘Umr - by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani)*: Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, may Allah have mercy on him, said: This is a record in which I collected the events of the time I witnessed from my birth in the year 773 AH onward, detailing year by year the conditions of the states, the deaths of notable figures, and the news of the people of that era. It focuses especially on narrators of hadith, particularly those I met or who authorized me. Most of what I include is what I personally observed or received from reliable sources or found in the handwriting of trustworthy scholars among my teachers and companions.
Publishing House: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah - Beirut, Lebanon - 1406 AH - 1986 CE.
Edition: Second.
Editor: Dr. Muhammad Abd al-Mu’id Khan.
Number of volumes: (9).
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - Inba’ al-Ghumr bi Anba’ al-‘Umr - Year 790 AH
Volume: (1) - Page Number: (347)
- … Then, on the night of the Mawlid al-Nabawi (the Prophet’s birthday), the emirs sought the assistance of Shaykh Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini and Shaykh Burhan al-Din ibn Zaqa’ah, whom the sultan revered, so they interceded on their behalf, and the emirs supported them, and he ordered the cancellation of the inspection.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - Inba’ al-Ghumr bi Anba’ al-‘Umr - Year 813 AH
Volume: (2) - Page Number: (449)
- … On the seventeenth of that month, they set out from Al-Raydaneya, and the sultan departed on the fourth of Rabi' al-Awwal with the army after holding the Mawlid al-Nabawi celebration on the first night of Rabi' al-Awwal. Ibn Zaqa’ah sat on his right, with Shaykh Nasr Allah below him, followed by the rest of the shaykhs, and on his left were the judges. That year, he granted the Hanbali judge one hundred dinars to prepare himself, unlike the other judges, and appointed him as the head of the lodge his father, Sadr al-Din Ahmad ibn al-Ajmi, had built, where he established the Sufi order.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - Inba’ al-Ghumr bi Anba’ al-‘Umr - Year 829 AH
Volume: (3) - Page Number: (365)
- … On Thursday, the seventh of Rabi' al-Awwal, the Mawlid al-Nabawi was held, beginning after the service, with the banquet spread after the Asr prayer, and it concluded between the Maghrib and Isha prayers. The usual practice had been to start after Dhuhr, spread the banquet at Maghrib, and finish by a third of the night.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - Inba’ al-Ghumr bi Anba’ al-‘Umr - Year 840 AH
Volume: (4) - Page Numbers: (39/40)
- … Safar began on the night of Wednesday, and Rabi' al-Awwal began on the night of Thursday. In the month of Rabi' al-Awwal, Shaykh Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali al-Tabnawi undertook the demolition of the monastery in Bahri and attended the Mawlid al-Nabawi. He issued a document stating that Christians made pilgrimage to it every year, and that countless Christians and Muslims would gather there for sightseeing and trade, to the point that it rivaled the assembly of people at the standing place in Arafat.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - Inba’ al-Ghumr bi Anba’ al-‘Umr - Year 842 AH
Volume: (4) - Page Number: (96)
- … On the night of Friday, the 28th of the month, the Mawlid al-Nabawi was held, attended by the emirs, notable figures, and reciters as per custom.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - Inba' al-Ghumr bi-Anba' al-'Umr - Year 849 AH
Volume: (4) - Page: (237)
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- .... And on the night of Monday, the eleventh, the Mawlid of the Prophet was held in the courtyard as usual, and the Sultan was angered at the Hanafi judge due to his delay in ruling on Sarim Ibrahim ibn Ramadan because of the reprehensible actions he had committed. Taghri Barmish and Ibn Ubaydallah went to his lands due to these actions, which led to the convening of a council over the matter. A council was convened after some days, and there was no conclusive evidence against him warranting execution, so he was ordered to be punished and sent back to prison, where he died a week later.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina - His death was in Muharram of the year
Volume: (5) - Page: (483)
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1926 - Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Qahtaba, his brother. Ibn al-Khatib said: He was younger than his brother in age, but he excelled in literature and surpassed others and became renowned for his skill, as exemplified by what he recited on the night of the Mawlid of the Prophet in the year 754:
Let her yearn for the springs of La'la'
and shed tears in memory of the fields of Ajra'
By Allah, tell me, how is the one
who has parted from his beloved without a farewell?
And it is lengthy.