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Al-Hakim serves as Ibn Hibban's mustamli, 334/945

الحاكم النيسابوري مستملي ابن حبان، ٣٣٤هـ

945 CE · 334 AH

Nishapur

In 334/945-6 al-Hakim became the mustamli of Abu Hatim Ibn Hibban at Nishapur — meeting him for the first time and writing down the dictation in his circle 1 2.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Nishapur

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Summary

In 334/945-6 al-Hakim became the mustamli of Abu Hatim Ibn Hibban at Nishapur — their first meeting — writing down what the master dictated in his circle 1 2.

The master and his scribe

Ibn Hibban had settled at Nishapur as qadi and polymath; the young al-Hakim served him as dictation-copyist, the start of his link with the greatest hadith scholars of the craft 2.

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Had participant
al-Hakim al-Nisaburi· Ibn Hibban al-Busti
Occurred at
Nishapur

People and things also explored

al-Hakim al-Nisaburi· Al-Hakim begins his compilations, 337/948· Al-Sibghi entrusts Dar al-Sunna to al-Hakim, 342/953· Death of al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, 3 Safar 405/1014· Al-Hakim al-Nisaburi's first hearing of hadith, 330/941· Al-Talamanaki writes the sciences of hadith from al-Hakim's circle, 389/999· Hearing hadith from al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, before 405/1014· al-Bayhaqi

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 122
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 113
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al-Hakim al-Nisaburi

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Nisaburi, the hafiz known as Ibn al-Bayyi' (321-405/933-1014); born at Nishapur on Monday 3 Rabi' I 321, he first heard hadith in 330, journeyed to Iraq in 341 and made the hajj through Khurasan and Transoxiana until his shaykhs numbered near two thousand; he attached himself to the imam Abu Bakr al-Sibghi who left him his school Dar al-Sunna; he began compiling in 337 and his works approached 1,500 parts, among them the Mustadrak 'ala al-Sahihayn, Tarikh al-Naysaburiyyin and Ma'rifat 'ulum al-hadith; al-Daraqutni, al-Bayhaqi and al-Qushayri transmitted from him; he died at Nishapur on Tuesday 3 Safar 405/1014.