[1] He was the father of Shihab al-Din Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyya and the grandfather of Taq al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya.
Harran was a city part of the Sultanate of Rum, now Harran is a small city on the border of Syria and Turkey, currently in Şanlıurfa province.
[4] Before its destruction by the Mongols, Harran was also well known since the early days of Islam for its Hanbali school and tradition,[5] to which Ibn Taymiyya's family belonged.
[3] He taught Hadith in the Levant, the Hijaz and Iraq, and in addition to his country Harran in the Levant, he was a member of his time in the knowledge of the Hanbali school of thought.
“Al-Muntaqa fi Ahadith Al-Ahkam” was explained by Al-Shawkani titled ‘Nayl al-Awtar’ 3.