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Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hajar departed this life in 852. It was, says the historian Ibn Iyas, вЂthe greatest celebration of the age in Egypt.вЂ™

Ibn Hajar sat on a platform and read out the final pages of his work, and then poets recited eulogies and gold was distributed. When it was finished, in Rajab 842, a great celebration was held in an open place near Cairo, in the presence of the ulema, judges, and leading personages of Egypt. Similarly, the Moroccan sultan Abu Faris вЂAbd al-вЂAziz al-Hafsi requested a copy before its completion. In 839 the request was repeated, and further volumes were sent, until, in the reign of al-Zahir Jaqmaq, the whole text was finished and a complete copy was dispatched. In 833, TimurвЂ™s son Shahrukh sent a letter to the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay requesting several gifts, including a copy of the Fath, and Ibn Hajar was able to send him the first three volumes. As the work progressed and its authorвЂ™s fame grew, the Islamic world took a close interest in the new work.

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It began as a series of formal dictations to his hadith students, after which he wrote it out in his own hand and circulated it section by section to his pupils, who would discuss it with him once a week. In 817, Ibn Hajar commenced the enormous task of assembling his Fath al-Bari. Among these are al-Durar al-Kamina (a biographical dictionary of leading figures of the eighth century), a commentary on the Forty Hadith of Imam al-Nawawi (a scholar for whom he had particular respect) Tahdhib al-Tahdhib (an abbreviation of Tahdhib al-Kamal, the encyclopedia of hadith narrators by al-Mizzi), al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-Sahaba (the most widely-used dictionary of Companions), and Bulugh al-Maram min adillat al-ahkam (on ShafiвЂi fiqh). It was in Cairo that the Imam wrote some of the most thorough and beneficial books ever added to the library of Islamic civilisation. During these years, he served on occasion as the ShafiвЂi chief justice of Egypt. Once esconced in Egypt, Ibn Hajar taught in the Sufi lodge (khaniqah) of Baybars for some twenty years, and then in the hadith college known as Dar al-Hadith al-Kamiliyya. So widely did her reputation for sanctity extend that during her fifteen years of widowhood, which she devoted to good works, she received a proposal from Imam вЂAlam al-Din al-Bulqini, who considered that a marriage to a woman of such charity and baraka would be a source of great pride. Many noted how she surrounded herself with the old, the poor and the physically handicapped, whom it was her privilege and pleasure to support. After the marriage, Ibn Hajar moved into her house, where he lived until his death. She was a hadith expert in her own right, holding ijazas from Zayn al-Din al-вЂIraqi, and she gave celebrated public lectures in the presence of her husband to crowds of ulema among whom was Imam al-Sakhawi. When he reached 25 he married the lively and brilliant Anas Khatun, then 18 years of age. After a further visit to Mecca and Madina, and to the Yemen, he returned to Egypt. Two years later his protector died, and his education in Egypt was entrusted to the hadith scholar Shams al-Din ibn al-Qattan, who entered him in the courses given by the great Cairene scholars al-Bulqini (d.806) and Ibn al-Mulaqqin (d.804) in ShafiвЂi fiqh, and of Zayn al-Din al-вЂIraqi (d.806) in hadith, after which he was able to travel to Damascus and Jerusalem, where he studied under Shams al-Din al-Qalqashandi (d.809), Badr al-Din al-Balisi (d.803), and Fatima bint al-Manja al-Tanukhiyya (d.803).

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By the time he accompanied al-Kharrubi to Mecca at the age of 12, he was competent enough to lead the Tarawih prayers in the Holy City, where he spent much time studying and recalling God amid the pleasing simplicity of KharrubiвЂ™s house, the Bayt al-вЂAynaвЂ™, whose windows looked directly upon the Black Stone. Here he excelled, learning Surat Maryam in a single day, and progressing to the memorisation of texts such as the Mukhtasar of Ibn al-Hajib on usul. The two children became wards of the brother of his fatherвЂ™s first wife, Zaki al-Din al-Kharrubi, who entered the young Ibn Hajar in a QurвЂ™anic school (kuttab) when he reached five years of age. Both died in his infancy, and he was later to praise his elder sister, Sitt al-Rakb, for acting as his вЂsecond motherвЂ™.

Some members of the family had settled in Palestine, which they left again when faced with the Crusader threat, but he himself was born in Egypt in 773, the son of the ShafiвЂi scholar and poet Nur al-Din вЂAli and the learned and aristocratic Tujjar. AbuвЂ™l-Fadl Ahmad ibn HajarвЂ™s family originated in the district of Qabis in Tunisia.