Ibn al jawzi biography for kids

His Name and Lineage

His name is Abū’l-Faraj Jāmal al-Dīn ‘Abdur-Raḥmān ibn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Ubaid Allāh ibn al-Jawzī al-Qurashī al-Tammimi al-Bakrī, and he is from the family of Muḥammad ibn Abū Bakr as-Ṣiddīq, al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanbalī (1).

His Birth and Upbringing

He was born in 509 or 510 AH.

Upon teaching adolescence, his aunt took him to ibn Nasīr from whom he learned a great deal. He came to love preaching while barely having reached the age of puberty, and from then started to give sermons to the people.

His father passed away when he was only at the age of three years old, so his aunt took care of him.

His relatives were copper merchants so at times in hadīth hearings he would write his name as ‘Abdur-Raḥmān ibn ‘Alī al-Ṣaffār (i.e, The Coppersmith).

His first hadīth hearing was in 556 AH, as evidenced by al-Dhahabī (2).

While still being very young, he became known as a religious person who would not sociali