Al-Dhahabi

الذهبي، شمس الدين محمد بن أحمد، أبو عبد الله

d. 748 AH

Sunni Scholars

Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (شمس الدين الذهبي), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was an Athari theologian, Islamic historian and Hadith scholar.

17 References

Tadhkirat al-Huffaz

تذكرة الحفّاظ

Haydarabad: Da'irat al-Ma`arif al-Nizamiyyah, 1333 AH

Volume 1 Page 10

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vol. 1, p. 40

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Beirut: Dar al-kutub al-'ilmiyya (4 vols), 1374 AH

vol. 1, p. 89

Mizan al-I`tidal fi Naqd al-Rijal

ميزان الاعتدال في نقد الرجال

Unidentified Edition

vol. 2, p. 46

vol. 2, p. 115

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Siyar A'lam al-Nubala

سير أعلام النبلاء

Damascus: Mu'assasat al-Risala, 1403/1983

Volume 14 Page 276

Volume 14 Page 277

1 Question

Is it accurate that Imam Ali (a) had a son named by Umar ibn Khattab during his caliphate, as stated in Siyar A'laamin Nubala by Imam Dhahabi, volume 4, page 134? Are there other historical sources that verify this claim, or is it considered fabricated? Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi