At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · Arabia · Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
From his youth Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj journeyed to the Hijaz, Iraq, Syria and Egypt in the quest for hadith, entering Baghdad more than once so that its people transmitted from him 1. His masters were many: foremost Yahya ibn Yahya al-Naysaburi (d. 224-6), Abd Allah ibn Maslama al-Qa'nabi (d. 220-1) and Qutayba ibn Sa'id (d. 240), all major pupils of Malik ibn Anas; also Sa'id ibn Mansur (d. 227), Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241), Ishaq ibn Rahwayh (d. 237-8) and Muhammad ibn Bashshar Bundar (d. 252), and in the Hijaz Isma'il ibn Abi Uways (d. 226-7) and Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Ansari 2.
Connections
- Had participant
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj· Abd Allah ibn Maslama al-Qanabi· Qutayba ibn Sa'id· Sa'id ibn Mansur
- Occurred at
- Hejaz· Baghdad· al-Sham (Greater Syria)· Misr (Egypt)
People and things also explored
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj· Al-Nasa'i's hadith journeys through Khurasan, Iraq, al-Sham, Egypt, the Hijaz and the Jazira, after 240/854· Al-Daraqutni journeys to al-Sham and Egypt and composes the Musnad for Ibn Hinzaba, about 350/961· The general famine and plague of 448· Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj hears Ahmad ibn Hanbal and gathers his Questions, c. 220/835· Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj's last entry into Baghdad, 259/873· Muwatta 762· Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan , v p. 195
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 690-691
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj's hadith journeys to the Hijaz, Iraq, Syria and Egypt, c. 215/830”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/muslim-rihla-lands-215/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.