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Al-Tirmidhi's hadith journeys through the lands of Khurasan, Iraq and the Hijaz, c. 230/845

رحلة الترمذي في طلب الحديث بأقاليم خراسان والعراق والحجاز، نحو ٢٣٠هـ

c. 845 CE · c. 230 AH

خراسان → Iraq → Hejaz

Al-Tirmidhi ranged on his scholarly journey through the lands of Khurasan, Iraq and the Hijaz, hearing and gathering copiously 1; he travelled widely in search of traditions through Khurasan, Iraq and the Hijaz, counting among the pupils of al-Bukhari, Muslim and Abu Dawud al-Sijistani 2 3.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia · Arabia · Levant & Iraq

In time

830840850860 c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate

In space

خراسانIraqHejaz

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Overview

Al-Tirmidhi ranged on his scholarly journey through the lands of Khurasan, Iraq and the Hijaz, hearing and gathering copiously 1. He travelled widely in search of traditions through Khurasan, Iraq and the Hijaz 2.

His teachers

He apprenticed under al-Bukhari, Muslim and Abu Dawud al-Sijistani and their peers, his most important masters being men of the two Shaykhs' layer and elders they had reached 4. He shared nine shaykhs with the five imams, among them Muhammad ibn Bashshar Bundar (d. 252), Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna (d. 257), al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Azim al-Anbari (d. 246) and Nasr ibn Ali al-Jahdami (d. 250) 3.

Connections

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Had participant
Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa
Occurred at
خراسان· Iraq· Hejaz
During the reign of
al-Wathiq

People and things also explored

Abu Sulayman al-Khattabi· Al-Bukhari's testimony to al-Tirmidhi: 'I benefited from you more than you benefited from me', c. 245/860· al-Darimi· al-Juwayni· قحطبة بن شبيب الطائي· Qubadh, Partisan king· Abu Dawud's wider journey: Egypt, the Jazira, Harran and Aleppo· Alid Revolt of 762

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 450
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 10 p. 579
  3. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 451
  4. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 450-451
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Tirmidhi's hadith journeys through the lands of Khurasan, Iraq and the Hijaz, c. 230/845”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/tirmidhi-rihla-lands-230/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Hamd ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Khattab of Bust, Abu Sulayman al-Khattabi (319–388 AH), a descendant of Zayd ibn al-Khattab, was a hadith scholar, jurist, man of letters, philologist and poet from Bust in the land of Kabul; he learned language and letters from Abu 'Umar al-Zahid, Isma'il al-Saffar and Abu Ja'far al-Razzaz and law from al-Qaffal al-Shashi, al-Hakim al-Nisaburi transmitted from him, and he wrote Ma'alim al-Sunan on Abu Dawud's Sunan, A'lam al-Sunan on al-Bukhari, Gharib al-Hadith and other works.