Ismail ibn Kathir was an
Islamic scholar. His full name is Abu Al-Fida, 'Imad Ad-Din Isma'il bin 'Umar bin Kathir Al-Qurashi Al-Busrawi. He was born in
1301 in
Busra,
Syria (hence Al-Busrawi). He was taught by the great scholar Shaikh ul-Islam
Ibn Taymiyya in
Damascus, Syria and Abu al-Hajjaj
Al-Mizzi, (d. 1373), main teacher of Ibn Kathir. Upon completion of his studies he obtained his first official appointment in 1341, when he joined an inquisitorial commission formed to determine certain questions of
heresy. Thereafter he received various semi-official appointments, culminating in June/July 1366 with a professorial position at the Great Mosque of Damascus. Ibn Kathir wrote a famous commentary on the
Qur'an named
Tafsir ibn Kathir which linked certain
Hadith, or sayings of
Muhammad, and sayings of the
sahaba to verses of the Qur'an, in explanation. Tafsir Ibn Kathir is famous all over the
Muslim world and among
Muslims in the
Western world, and is one of the most widely used explanations of the Qu'ran today.
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