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Shaykh Al Islam Taqiuddin Ahmed Abdul Halim Ibn Taymiyyah Shaykh Al Islam Taqiuddin Ahmed Abdul Halim Ibn Taymiyyah 682 702 site_link Taqee ud Deen Abul Abbaas Ahmad ibn Abd il Haleem ibn Abd is Salaam ibn Taymeeyah was born in 661 AH 1263 CE in Haran which is now in Eastern Turkey near the border of northern Iraq His family had long been renowned for its learning among his teachers was Shams ud Din Al Maqdisi first Hanbali Chief Justice of Syria following the reform of the judiciary by Baibars The number of Ibn Taymeeyah s teachers exceeds two hundred Ibn Taymeeyah was barely seventeen when Qadi Al Maqdisi authorized him to issue Fatwa legal verdict Qadi remembered with pride that it was he who had first permitted an intelligent and learned man like Ibn Taimiyah to give Fatwa At the same age he started delivering lectures When he was thirty he was offered the office of Chief Justice but refused as he could not persuade himself to follow the limitations imposed by the authorities Imam Ibn Taimiyah s education was essentially that of a Hanbali theologian and jurisconsult But to his knowledge of early and classical Hanbalism he added not only that of the other schools of jurisprudence but also that of other literature He had an extensive knowledge of Quran Sunnah Greek philosophy Islamic history and religious books of others site_link