The Cited Tales of the Wondrous Doings of the Shaykhs of the Holy Land by Diyā' al-Ḍīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Wāḥid al-Maqdisī (569/1173–643/1245): Text, Translation and Commentary

The text of The Cited Tales of the Wondrous Doings ² of the Shaykhs ³ of the Holy Land ⁴ (Ms. al-Ẓāhiriyya, Damascus, Ḥadith 238, part 3, fols. 91b— 99: now in al-Asad Library, no. 1039) ⁵ was composed in Damascus by the Ḥanbah scholar Ḍiyā' al-Dīn Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad b. 'Abd al-Wāḥid al-Maqdisī (569/1173–643/1245). The author, whose parents emigrated from the Palestinian village of Jammā 'īl to Damascus a few years before his birth, grew up in the predominantly Ḥanbalī neighborhood of al-Ṣāliḥiyya, where he established a madrasa for the study of ḥadīth. He is often quoted in chronicles and biographical dictionaries of historians of the late Ayyubid and Mamluk period, mainly as an informant on Ḥanbalīs and on Damascus. His own literary work includes treatises on ḥadīth and Qur'ān, and faḍāⁱil (praise) of jihad, al-Shdām (Syria and Palestine) and various Islamic figures. ⁶