At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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In time
In space
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Connections
- Had participant
- al-Sam'ani· ابن السمعاني
- Occurred at
- Nishapur· هراة· Balkh· Samarqand· Bukhara
People and things also explored
Al-Sam'ani's first great hadith journey, 529-538/1135-1143· Ibn 'Asakir's second great journey east, 529-533/1135-1139· Ibn al-Salah gathers the science of hadith in Khurasan: Nishapur and Marw, c. 605· 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 begins the talab al-'ilm before the age of twenty: Nishapur for Sahih Muslim, then Tus and beyond, c. 525/1131· Al-Tha'alibi returns to Nishapur, probably by way of Herat, c. 412/1022· Abdullah Khan II
Sources
- Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , pp. 120-121
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 1024
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 75
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Sam'ani's third journey with his son 'Abd al-Rahim to Transoxiana, 549-552/1154-1157”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/samani-third-rihla-549/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-02.