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Al-Sam'ani begins the talab al-'ilm before the age of twenty: Nishapur for Sahih Muslim, then Tus and beyond, c. 525/1131

السمعاني يبدأ طلب العلم قبل العشرين: نيسابور لصحيح مسلم ثم طوس وغيرها، نحو ٥٢٥هـ

c. 1130 CE · c. 525 AH

Nishapur → Tus

As a youth Abu Sa'd turned to Qur'an, fiqh and study, and growing older he came to love hadith and audition 1. Not quite twenty, he set out on the talab al-'ilm: first back to Nishapur under his uncles' tutelage for special training in the Sahih of Muslim, then to Tus and other places 2.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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112011301140 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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NishapurTus

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al-Sam'ani
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Nishapur· Tus

People and things also explored

Ibn 'Asakir's second great journey east, 529-533/1135-1139· Al-Qushayri's return to Nishapur as Nizam al-Mulk's era dawns, 455/1063· Abu Bakr al-Sam'ani takes his small son 'Abd al-Karim to Nishapur for hadith hearings, 509/1115· Al-Sam'ani's third journey with his son 'Abd al-Rahim to Transoxiana, 549-552/1154-1157· The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Qasr al-Shadiyakh· Abu Dawud in Khurasan: Qutayba and Ibn Rahwayh, before 240/854

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 120
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 1024
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Ibn 'Asakir's second great journey east, 529-533/1135-1139

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. 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.