Biography of Ibn al-Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

Ibn al-Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (1292 - 1350 CE) was a Muslim scholar who lived in Damascus, Syria. He studied first under his own father, the qayyim (attendant) of the school of al_jawziyyah, and then under the great scholar Ibn Taymiyah. He completed and authored many books, including the famous Zad al-Ma'ad (The Provisions of the Hereafter), and was a contemporary of other leading scholars such as Ibn Kathir, Ibn Rajab and others.