Hearing hadith from al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, before 405/1014

السماع من الحاكم النيسابوري، قبل ٤٠٥هـ

c. 1009 CE · c. 400 AH

Nishapur

Al-Bayhaqi transmitted from al-Hakim Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Nisaburi, author of the Mustadrak, whose work he used extensively in his own compilations, and from other Nishapuri shaykhs — about a hundred in all; his hearing from al-Hakim predates the master's death in 405/1014 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Nishapur

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Al-Bayhaqi heard hadith from al-Hakim Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Nisaburi, author of the Mustadrak 'ala al-Sahihayn — a work he used extensively in his own compilations — and from other Nishapuri shaykhs, about a hundred in all, before al-Hakim's death in 405/1014 1.

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al-Bayhaqi· al-Hakim al-Nisaburi· Nishapur· 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-Hakim serves as Ibn Hibban's mustamli, 334/945

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  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1190
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al-Bayhaqi

The hadith memorist, legal theorist and jurist Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Bayhaqi of Khusrawjird in the Bayhaq district; he travelled widely for hadith and is credited with about a hundred shaykhs, studied under al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, witnessed the Kunduri persecution of the Ash'aris in 445/1053 and wrote his famous letter to the vizier Amid al-Mulk, joined the scholars' exodus to the Hijaz, then returned and died at Nishapur in 458/1066, buried at Khusrawjird.