Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (58 page)

al-Hindi
(d. 1567/8), entitled
Kanz al- ʿumma
l,
the tradition appeared in the section on “laudable character traits and acts.”
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Discussions of the tradition in the early Ottoman period tended to dissent, explicitly or implicitly, from the view of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (d. 1350), who dismissed it as an outright fabrication.
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Scholars who were widely regarded as specialists in the field of
ḥadi
th,
such as the Medinese ʿAli
al-Qa
riʾ al-Harawi
(d. 1614), the Egyptian Muḥammad al-Zurqa
ni
(d. 1720), the Damascene Isma
ʿi
l al-ʿAjlu
ni
(d. 1749), and the Indian-born, Egyptian-based Muhammad Murtaḍa
al-Zabi