Ibn 'Asakir's second great journey east, 529-533/1135-1139

الرحلة الكبرى الثانية لابن عساكر إلى المشرق، ٥٢٩-٥٣٣هـ/١١٣٥-١١٣٩م

1135 CE · 529 AH – 1139 CE · 533 AH

Isfahan → Jurjan → Nishapur → Merv → هراة

In 529 Ibn 'Asakir set out east by way of Azerbaijan to Jurjan, travelled its lands and entered Isfahan, staying on this journey about four years, hearing Abu 'Abdallah al-Furawi, 'Abd al-Mun'im ibn al-Qushayri and many more 1. He crossed Khurasan, visited Isfahan, travelled in Transoxiana and stayed at Marw, where he met Abu Sa'd al-Sam'ani and went with him to Nishapur and Herat; he had entered Nishapur about a month before al-Sam'ani in 529 and agreed to leave in 533 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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IsfahanJurjanNishapurMerv

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Ibn 'Asakir· al-Sam'ani
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Isfahan· Jurjan· Nishapur· Merv· هراة

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Al-Sam'ani's first great hadith journey, 529-538/1135-1143· Al-Sam'ani's third journey with his son 'Abd al-Rahim to Transoxiana, 549-552/1154-1157· Ibn al-Salah gathers the science of hadith in Khurasan: Nishapur and Marw, c. 605· Death of the hafiz al-Sam'ani at Marw, Monday 1 Rabi' I 562/26 December 1166· Death of Abu Bakr al-Sam'ani; the boy 'Abd al-Karim is raised by his two learned uncles, 510/1116· Abu Bakr al-Sam'ani takes his small son 'Abd al-Karim to Nishapur for hadith hearings, 509/1115· Al-Sam'ani returns to Marw, marries, and his son 'Abd al-Rahim is born, 538/1143· Al-Sam'ani casts down the staff of travel at Marw: teaching at the Amidiyya and composing, c. 552/1157

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 71
  2. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 76
  • Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes
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Al-Sam'ani's first great hadith journey, 529-538/1135-1143

Al-Sam'ani travelled before and after thirty to Khurasan, Isfahan, Iraq, the Hijaz, al-Sham, Tabaristan and Transoxiana. On this first great journey (529-538/1135-1143) he went via Isfahan and Hamadan to Baghdad and its environs, to Mecca and Medina, to Damascus and Jerusalem — which at his visit in 536/1141 had been in Crusader hands for forty-two years — and north and east to Khwarazm, Samarqand, Bukhara, Balkh and Herat.