Travels in pursuit of hadith, c. 430/1038

الرحلة في طلب الحديث، نحو ٤٣٠هـ

c. 1038 CE · c. 430 AH

Bayhaq

Al-Bayhaqi travelled through many lands in pursuit of hadith and is credited with transmitting from about a hundred shaykhs; in creed he was an Ash'arite, and by character frugal, pious and scholarly 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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103010401050 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Al-Bayhaqi travelled through many lands in pursuit of hadith and is credited with transmitting from about a hundred shaykhs; in creed he was an Ash'arite, and by character frugal, pious and scholarly 1.

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People and things also explored

Al-Bayhaqi's letter to the vizier Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri, c. 446/1054· al-Bayhaqi· Bayhaq· Al-Baghdadi teaches in seventeen fields at Nishapur as Khurasan's imams study under him, c. 425/1033· Final settlement at Nishapur and the thousand fascicules, c. 457/1065· Hearing hadith from al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, before 405/1014· Tughril Beg dies, al-Kunduri falls, and the cursing is rescinded, 456/1064· The pulpit-cursing ordeal opens at Nishapur, 445/1053

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1190
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Al-Bayhaqi's letter to the vizier Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri, c. 446/1054

Al-Bayhaqi was in the city of Bayhaq when news of the ordeal reached him; it grieved him, and as the traditionist of his age and the shaykh of the Sunna of his time he wrote to Amid al-Mulk a long letter defending al-Ash'ari — recounting his lineage and merits — and asking him to quench the fire, abandon the cursing and discipline its perpetrators; Ibn Asakir transmitted the letter in full.