Zaynab bint ʿUmar b. al-Kindī

Zainab Bint ‘Umar Bin Kindi (died 699 Hijri / c. 1300 CE) was a female muhaddith in 13th century Damascus and Baalbek.

Biography

Scholarship She received permissions (ijazah) to narrate from Al-Muayid al-Tusi, Abu Ruh al-Harawi, Zainab al-Sha’riyah, Al-Qasim Ibn-al-Saaffar, Abdul-Baqa al-Uqbari, ‘Abdul-‘Adhim Bin ‘Abdal-Latif al-Sharabi, and Ahmed Bin Zafar Bin Hubairah. She studied Kitab al-Tawhid of Ibn Khuzaymah and had going back to him.

She was also a teacher of Muhammad ibn Qawalij, a tutor of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani.

Legacy Al-Dhahabi writes about her that she was "a righteous woman, generous, who possessed piety and (gave) charity. She built a hospice for the poor, and she bequeathed religious endowments." Dhahabi also says that she was "without parallel in the time (that she lived in)." He notes that his father, his maternal uncle, and many other people in Baalbek received the tradition from her ("Abul-Hussain Al-Yunini and his children and relatives, Ibn Abil-Fath and his two sons, Al-Mizzi and his elder son, Al-Birzali, Ibn-al-Nabulusi, Abu Bakr al-Rahbi, Ibn-al-Muhandis, Ahmed Ibn-al-Duraybi").