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6.3.1 - Ibn al-Zakiy Family

As we mentioned before, when the leader Salahuddin al-Mansour opened al-Quds, he turned his eyes away from all the elder shaykhs and chose a young scholar who was thirty-two years old, known for his intelligence and rhetoric, Muhyiddin Ibn al-Zakiy, and presented him to deliver the first sermon in this holy city. He climbed up to the pulpit with the black gown bestowed on him by the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad, and he delivered a speech to recorded in history.

The Bani al-Zakiy family, who celebrated Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi in Damascus and gave him care and hospitality, is one of the ancient families in the Levant. Many of them served as magistrates during, before and after the Ayyubid state, the largest religious and judicial office of the time. The origins of this noble family belong to Judge Ibn al-Zakiy, also known as Ibn al-Sayegh, who took over the judiciary in Damascus, after his father, in 510 AH [Al-Dhahabi, The Conduct of Elite Nobles: c 20 pp. 137-138].

Many historians mention that when Shaykh Muhyiddin came to Damascus and stayed there, he found an unprecedented celebration by the family of Bani al-Zakiy, where they allocated for him a pension, and they attended his lessons, and when he died he was buried in their soil, although he does not belong to their family, which increased their fame even further to the point that many historians who wrote the biographies of scholars have become chronicling their death and place of burial by saying, for example, “and he was buried in the soil of Bani Zakiy near the shrine of Shaykh Muhyiddin.” d. 668