Al-Khatib's hajj, with hearings in al-Sham and Mecca, 446/1054

حج الخطيب وسماعه بالشام ومكة، ٤٤٦هـ

c. 1054 CE · 446 AH

Al-Khatib journeyed to al-Sham as a pilgrim and heard at Damascus, Tyre and Mecca; at Mecca he met Abu 'Abd Allah al-Quda'i, and he read the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari in five days upon Karima al-Marwaziyya before returning to Baghdad. His own Tarikh records that he heard Ibn Burhan at Tyre on his way back from the hajj of 446 ¹.

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He journeyed to al-Sham as a pilgrim, hearing at Damascus, Tyre and Mecca, where he met al-Quda'i; he read the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari in five days upon Karima al-Marwaziyya, then returned to Baghdad — in 446 ¹.

Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi

The hafiz Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn Thabit, known as al-Khatib al-Baghdadi — Baghdad's traditionist, its historian and, for later generations, the seal of the memorizers of his age; born in 392, son of the preacher of Darzijan below Baghdad, he began hearing hadith at eleven, journeyed to Basra at twenty, to Nishapur at twenty-three and on to Isfahan, made the hajj with hearings at Damascus, Tyre and Mecca and read Sahih al-Bukhari in five days upon Karima al-Marwaziyya, left Baghdad after the Basasiri fitna in 451 to reside in al-Sham and then Tyre, visiting Jerusalem, until he re-entered Baghdad in Dhu al-Hijja 462 and the Baghdadis heard his Tarikh Baghdad from him at the Nizamiyya madrasa; long a Hanbali, he was driven by the hostility of its partisans to the Shafi'i school; about sixty works are counted for him; he died on Monday 7 Dhu al-Hijja 463 and was buried at Bab Harb beside Bishr al-Hafi.

Al-Khatib's hajj, with hearings in al-Sham and Mecca, 446/1054

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