His complete name was Abū l-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar ibn Kaṯīr (أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير) and had the privileged title of ʿImād advertisement Dīn (عماد الدين "mainstay of the confidence"). He was conceived in Mijdal, a town on the edges of the city of Busra, toward the east of Damascus, Syria, around about AH 701 (AD 1300/1). He was educated by Ibn Taymiyya and Al-Dhahabi.
Endless supply of his examinations he acquired his first official arrangement in 1341, when he joined an inquisitorial commission framed to decide certain inquiries of heresy. He wedded the girl of Al-Mizzi, one of the chief Syrian researchers of the period, which gave him access to the academic world class. In 1345 he was made minister (khatib) at a recently constructed mosque in Mizza, the main residence of his dad in-law. In 1366, he rose to a scholarly position at the Great Mosque of Damascus.
In later life, he moved toward becoming blind. He credits his visual impairment to working late during the evening on the Musnad of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal trying to revamp it topically as opposed to by storyteller. He passed on in February 1373 (AH 774) in Damascus. He was covered alongside his instructor Ibn Taymiyya.
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