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Al-Nasa'i's hadith journeys through Khurasan, Iraq, al-Sham, Egypt, the Hijaz and the Jazira, after 240/854

رحلات النسائي في طلب الحديث بخراسان والعراق والشام ومصر والحجاز والجزيرة، بعد ٢٤٠هـ

c. 860 CE · c. 245 AH

Marw → Nishapur → Hejaz → al-Sham (Greater Syria) → Misr (Egypt)

After 240/854 al-Nasa'i heard from a host of shaykhs in Khurasan, Iraq, al-Sham, Egypt, the Hijaz and the Jazira, travelling to Marw, Nishapur and beyond; his best-known teachers were Qutayba ibn Sa'id, Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Hisham ibn Ammar, Isa ibn Hammad, Muhammad ibn al-Nadr al-Marwazi, Abu Kurayb and Suwayd ibn Nasr 1 2; modern scholars describe extensive travels in quest of hadith before he settled in Egypt 3.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia · Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile · Arabia
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In time

850860870 c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation

In space

Nishapur

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Summary

After 240/854 al-Nasa'i heard from a host of shaykhs in Khurasan, Iraq, al-Sham, Egypt, the Hijaz and the Jazira, travelling to Marw, Nishapur and beyond 1 2.

His teachers there

Among the best known were Qutayba ibn Sa'id, Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Hisham ibn Ammar, Isa ibn Hammad, al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Sulami al-Naysaburi, Amr ibn Zurara, Muhammad ibn al-Nadr al-Marwazi, Abu Kurayb and Suwayd ibn Nasr 1; scholars describe the journeys as extensive before he settled in Egypt 3.

Connections

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Had participant
al-Nasa'i· Ishaq ibn Rahwayh
Occurred at
Marw· Nishapur· Hejaz· al-Sham (Greater Syria)· Misr (Egypt)

People and things also explored

Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj's hadith journeys to the Hijaz, Iraq, Syria and Egypt, c. 215/830· Abu Dawud in Khurasan: Qutayba and Ibn Rahwayh, before 240/854· Al-Daraqutni journeys to al-Sham and Egypt and composes the Musnad for Ibn Hinzaba, about 350/961· Jaʿda ibn Hubayra's Khurāsān mission and Naysābūr's defiance (37 AH)· Al-Nasa'i leaves Egypt for Damascus, Dhu al-Qa'da 302/915· Al-Nasa'i settles in Egypt, living at Zuqaq al-Qanadil, c. 270/884· Muwatta 762· al-Nasa'i

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 106
  2. Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.2 p. 617
  3. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 1023
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Nasa'i's hadith journeys through Khurasan, Iraq, al-Sham, Egypt, the Hijaz and the Jazira, after 240/854”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/nasai-rihla-lands-240/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj's hadith journeys to the Hijaz, Iraq, Syria and Egypt, c. 215/830

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; among the many masters he heard were 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 leading pupils of Malik ibn Anas, together with Sa'id ibn Mansur (d. 227), Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241), Ishaq ibn Rahwayh (d. 237-8) and Muhammad ibn Bashshar Bundar (d. 252).