Ibn Arabi’s funeral at Qasioun
Ibn Kathir, quoting Abu Shama, dates Ibn Arabi’s funeral to 22 Rabi II AH 638 and reports his burial in the cemetery of Qadi Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Zaki at Qasioun.
What this does and does not establish
Arabic Wikisource revision 77488, Ibn Arabi biographical subsection, lines 30–38. The date explicitly concerns the funeral; no separate burial date is supplied. The neighboring account attributed to Ibn al-Sibt supplies no competing funeral date.
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- Region
- Western Asia
- Theme
- Social life
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- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
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- 22 Rabi II AH 638
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Dating notes from the research record
Read kathir638.wikitext, annual heading line 12 (AH 638), and the subsection at lines 30–38, especially line 36. Rabi II is month 4. Read ah-638.txt, line 5: month 4 spans Julian 20 October–17 November 1240, buffered 17 October–20 November 1240, entirely within 1240. Its twenty-second day maps tabularly to 10 November 1240; the year attribution does not require an exact observational day. Original quotation begins at line 36, character 2441.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya
Ibn Kathir
Quoted text (Arabic)
وكانت له جنازة حسنة، ودفن بمقبرة القاضي محي الدين بن الزكي بقاسيون، وكانت جنازته في الثاني والعشرين من ربيع الآخر من هذه السنة.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
He had a fine funeral, and he was buried in the cemetery of Qadi Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Zaki at Qasioun; his funeral was on the twenty-second of Rabi II of this year.
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