At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
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Summary
Toward the end of his life al-Bayhaqi moved to Nishapur and settled there as a traditionist and compiler; he was a voluminous writer whose works were said to reach a thousand fascicules — most famous the Sunan al-Kubra, of which al-Subki declared nothing comparable in accuracy, arrangement and quality, while Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni praised his writings in support of the Shafi'i school 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Bayhaqi· Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni
- Occurred at
- Nishapur
People and things also explored
The pulpit-cursing ordeal opens at Nishapur, 445/1053· The scholars' exodus from Nishapur toward the Hijaz, c. 450/1058· Nishapur· Al-Baghdadi teaches in seventeen fields at Nishapur as Khurasan's imams study under him, c. 425/1033· Hearing hadith from al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, before 405/1014· Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni is born at Bushtanikan, Muharram 419/1028· Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni dies at Bushtanqan, 25 Rabi' II 478/1085· Al-Juwayni takes his father's teaching chair before twenty, 438/1047
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1190
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Final settlement at Nishapur and the thousand fascicules, c. 457/1065”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/bayhaqi-settles-nishapur-457/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.