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 "label": {
  "ar": "ابن الرفاع الحموي",
  "en": "Ibn al-Raffa' of Hama"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "شيخ الشيوخ؛ كان أبوه قاضي حماة، وولد بدمشق سنة ست وثمانين وكان مفرط الذكاء؛ رحل به أبوه فسمع من ابن كليب جزء ابن عرفة ومن أبي المجد المسند كله؛ وله محفوظات كثيرة وفضائل شهيرة وحرمة وجلالة ولين جانب يكرم من يعرف ومن لا يعرف؛ مات بحماة ودفن بظاهرها في ثامن رمضان بتربة كان أعدها له، وله شعر {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535-536}.",
  "en": "Hama's shaykh al-shuyukh (b. Damascus 586), 'of exceeding intelligence' — carried by his father the qadi on rihla, he heard all of Abu al-Majd's Musnad; died 8 Ramadan 662 in a turba he had prepared {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535-536}."
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   "hijri": "0586",
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   "status": "tradition",
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   "note": "ولد بدمشق سنة ست وثمانين وخمسمائة {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535}."
  },
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   "edtf": "1264-08~",
   "hijri": "0662-09-08",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "مات بحماة ودفن بظاهرها في ثامن رمضان بتربة كان أعدها له {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535-536}."
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    "value": "شيخ الشيوخ شرف الدين عبد العزيز بن محمد بن عبد المحسن الأنصاري الدمشقي ثم الحموي الشافعي الأديب المعروف بابن الرفاع",
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   "edtf": "1190",
   "hijri": "0586",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "ولد بدمشق سنة ست وثمانين وخمسمائة {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535}."
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   "edtf": "1264-08~",
   "hijri": "0662-09-08",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "tradition",
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   "note": "مات بحماة ودفن بظاهرها في ثامن رمضان بتربة كان أعدها له {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535-536}."
  },
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "muhaddith",
   "poet"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni-shafii",
    "basis": "tradition"
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   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "شذرات الذهب — ابن العماد (ج7، سنة 662)، قراءة آبل فيجن",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ابن الرفاع شيخ الشيوخ؛ كان أبوه قاضي حماة، وولد بدمشق سنة ست وثمانين وكان مفرط الذكاء؛ رحل به أبوه فسمع من ابن كليب جزء ابن عرفة ومن أبي المجد المسند كله. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535-536}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "خلقه ووفاته",
     "markdown": "وله محفوظات كثيرة وفضائل شهيرة وحرمة وجلالة ولين جانب يكرم من يعرف ومن لا يعرف؛ مات بحماة ودفن بظاهرها في ثامن رمضان بتربة كان أعدها له، وله شعر. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535-536}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ibn-al-raffa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ibn al-Raffa', shaykh of shaykhs; his father was qadi of Hama, and he was born at Damascus in 686 — exceedingly intelligent; his father travelled with him and he heard Ibn 'Urafa's Juz' from Ibn Kulayb and the entire Musnad from Abu'l-Majd. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535-536}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Character and death",
     "markdown": "He had many memorisations, famed virtues, sanctity and majesty with a gentle side — honouring those he knew and those he did not; he died at Hama, buried beyond it on the eighth of Ramadan in a plot he had prepared, and he has poetry. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535-536}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ibn-al-raffa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ابن الرفاع، شیخ الشيوخ؛ باپ حمہ کا قاضی تھا، وہ دمشق میں 686ھ میں پیدا — نہایت ذہین؛ باپ اسے لے کر سفر کیا تو ابن کلیب سے ابن عرفہ کا جز اور ابو المجد سے سارا مسند سنا۔ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535-536}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اخلاق و وفات",
     "markdown": "کثیر محفوظات، مشہور فضائل، حرمت، جلالت اور نرم پہلو — جاننے اور نہ جاننے والوں کی عزت؛ حمہ میں فوت ہوا اور آٹھویں رمضان کو باہر اپنے تیار کردہ قبر میں دفن ہوا؛ شعر بھی ہے۔ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 535-536}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ibn-al-raffa",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
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  "person/al-baydawi-abd-allah-ibn-umar",
  "person/al-qaysi-al-dimashqi",
  "person/al-thaqafi-al-jayyani-muhammad-ibn-al-hasan",
  "person/ibn-al-barizi",
  "person/ibn-nima",
  "person/al-kamal-al-darir",
  "person/majd-al-din-ibn-daqiq",
  "person/al-mursi-lawraqi",
  "person/ibn-darbas",
  "person/ibn-shuayb-al-siqilli",
  "person/najib-ibn-al-awd",
  "person/abu-bakr-ibn-qawam"
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  "event/kamil-hama-626",
  "event/saladin-homs-hama-573",
  "event/siege-of-hama-573",
  "person/al-malik-al-mansur-hama",
  "person/al-malik-al-mansur-ii-hama",
  "person/al-malik-al-muzaffar-hama",
  "person/al-zaki-al-barzali",
  "person/ibn-abi-al-dam"
 ],
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