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al-Tabari enters Egypt and studies with its scholars

دخول الطبري مصر وقراءته على علمائها

867 CE · 253 AH

Al-Fustat

After years in Baghdad al-Tabari set out on his great study journey through Syria and Palestine to Egypt, passing through Beirut and such centres as Hims, al-Ramla and Askalan; his entry into Egypt can be fixed with some certainty at 253/867. There he met the leading Egyptian muhaddith and authority on the qira'at Yunus ibn Abd al-A'la, read Malik's fiqh with the Ibn Abd al-Hakam family, and took Shafi'i law from al-Rabi ibn Sulayman 1 2.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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Egypt & Nile

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Al-Tabari set out on his great study journey through Syria and Palestine to Egypt, passing through Beirut and such centres of hadith as Hims, al-Ramla and Askalan; his entry into Egypt can be fixed with some certainty at 253/867 1.

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In Egypt he met the leading muhaddith and authority on the qira'at Yunus ibn Abd al-A'la, read Malik's fiqh with the Ibn Abd al-Hakam family, and took Shafi'i law from al-Rabi ibn Sulayman; Ibn Yunus al-Sadafi counted him in his Kitab al-Ghuraba among the scholars who came to Egypt for study 1 2.

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al-Tabari studies in Baghdad and southern Iraq· al-Tabari leaves Amul for Rayy in search of knowledge· al-Tabari returns to Baghdad and settles there· al-Tabari's second journey home to Tabaristan· Dar al-Anmat· The White House (al-Dar al-Bayda'), al-Fustat· The Pepper House (Dar al-Fulful), al-Fustat· Dar al-Raml, al-Fustat

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 10 p. 21
  2. al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim , p. 326-327
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al-Tabari studies in Baghdad and southern Iraq

Al-Tabari went from Rayy to Baghdad, the intellectual centre of the Islamic world, before he was seventeen, hoping to study with Ahmad ibn Hanbal — a hope cut short by Ibn Hanbal's death. By 242/856-7 he had moved on to southern Iraq, studying with the leading scholars of Wasit, Basra and Kufa, among them Muhammad ibn Abd al-A'la al-San'ani and Muhammad ibn Bashshar (Bundar) at Basra and Abu Kurayb Muhammad ibn al-Ala at Kufa, before returning to Baghdad within two years.