At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
Summary
His legacy
He became one of the imams of hadith and composed the Sunan counted among the six canonical books 4.
Connections
People and things also explored
al-Nasa'i· Nasa· Death of Imam al-Nasa'i at al-Ramla from the after-effects of the Damascus assault, 13 Safar 303/915· The assault on al-Nasa'i in the mosque of Damascus over the virtues of Mu'awiya, c. Muharram 303/915· Al-Nasa'i leaves Egypt for Damascus, Dhu al-Qa'da 302/915· Al-Nasa'i's journey to Qutayba ibn Sa'id at Balkh, aged fifteen, c. 230/844· Al-Nasa'i's hadith journeys through Khurasan, Iraq, al-Sham, Egypt, the Hijaz and the Jazira, after 240/854· Al-Nasa'i settles in Egypt, living at Zuqaq al-Qanadil, c. 270/884
Sources
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.2 p. 617
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan , i p. 26-27
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 1023
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 1023-1024
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Birth of Imam Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i at Nasa in Khurasan, 215/830”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/birth-al-nasai-215/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.