Ibn Katheer and his Methodology in the Book Albidaayah wa Alnihaayah

Abstract

The study aims to shed ligt on the personality of Ibn Kathir (177M/1371H), his lif, his family, his  era, his  elders, and  his students,  with refrence to the external invasion on  the islamic world, which was subjected  to the Crusader  and  Mongol invasions.                                                                                                                         

   It included  the statement  of the  scholars  who he studied with and  learned  from  their sciences  and  a statement  of his participation  in the scientific  movement  and the spread  of  schools  in  his era, in addition to their  role in refining  his  personality due  to the  large number  of  scholars and elders  he  met with  and he took from them,  so  he  used  to give his  opinions and  indicate  the  credibility  of  the narrations and to adopt the  method  of  verifying the validity of historical statements through checking the reliability of narrators.