Abu Dawud at Kufa, 221/836, and Damascus, 222/837

أبو داود بالكوفة ٢٢١هـ وبدمشق ٢٢٢هـ

c. 836 CE · 221 AH – c. 837 CE · 222 AH

Abu 'Isa al-Azraq heard him say: I entered Kufa in the year twenty-one and went to 'Umar ibn Hafs's house but was not granted a hearing; and Abu Dawud said: I entered Damascus in the year twenty-two ¹. At Kufa he heard al-Hasan ibn al-Rabi' al-Burani, Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Yarbu'i and a circle of others, and at Damascus Safwan ibn Salih, Hisham ibn 'Ammar and a circle of others ².

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Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Levant & Iraq
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate

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Overview

Abu Dawud entered Kufa in the year twenty-one and went to 'Umar ibn Hafs's house, but a hearing was not granted him ³; at Kufa he heard al-Hasan ibn al-Rabi' al-Burani, Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Yarbu'i and a circle of others ².

Then Damascus

He said: I entered Damascus in the year twenty-two ⁴, where he heard Safwan ibn Salih, Hisham ibn 'Ammar and a circle of others ².

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Had participant: Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
Occurred at: Kufa· Damascus

People and things also explored

Great Mosque of Kufa· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· Abu Dawud's wider journey: Egypt, the Jazira, Harran and Aleppo· Abu Dawud's first journey: Baghdad, Basra and Mecca, 220/835· Abu Dawud in Khurasan: Qutayba and Ibn Rahwayh, before 240/854

Sources

Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , pp. 358, 362
Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 359
Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 358
Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 362

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Great Mosque of Kufa

The Great Mosque of Kufa; near-square with slightly unequal sides (~116×109×116×110 m), its south riwaq holding the mashhad of Imam Ali and scattered prayer-niches known as maqams (al-Khidr, Zayn al-Abidin, Jibril, Ibrahim), plus the 'Safina'/Tannur — a sunken octagonal court reached by stairs — and the bayt al-tasht; the Mawsu'at al-Atabat records that it joined the Qasr al-Imara, begun by Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, through a door in its south wall, and Iraqi excavations measured the palace's side at some 177 m.