Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi

Yusuf al-Mizzi
Born	654 AH Mizza (now is part of Damascus)
Died	743 AH
Era	Medieval era
Region	Syrian scholar
School	Shafi'i
Main interests	Ilm ar-Rijal
Influences Ibn Taymiya
Influenced Ibn Kathir

Jamal al-Din, Abi al-Hajjaj, Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi (Arabic: يوسف بن عبدالرحمن المزي‎‎) was an Islamic scholar from the Levant.

Biography

Al-Mizzi was born in Aleppo and grew up and settled in Damascus. He died at Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyyah in Damascus in the year 1342 C.E. He was buried in the Sufiyyah graveyard.

Works

• Tahdhib al-Kamal fi asma' al-rijal: a reworking of Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal, a collection of hadith narrator biographies.
• Tuhfah al-Ashraf: an index of the hadith contained in the Six major Hadith collections based upon the tarf, or beginning segment, of those hadith.