al-Nasa'i

النسائي

c. 830 CE · 215 AH – c. 915 CE · 303 AH

The muhaddith of Nasa in Khurasan, author of the Sunan counted among the six books; famed for his attention to hidden defects and transmitter criticism, moving late in life to Egypt and then al-Sham where he died.

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: أبو جعفر الترمذي · Ibn Khuzayma, Muhammad ibn Ishaq · محمد بن نصر المروزي · al-Bazzar Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Amr · Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya

Scripture and its sciences

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موجز

أحمد بن شعيب النسائي، محدث من نسا بخراسان، صاحب «السنن» المعدودة في الكتب الستة. 1 انظر سنن النسائي.

سيرته

ولد نحو سنة 215هـ وتوفي نحو سنة 303هـ، والتاريخان تقريبيان في البيانات. 1

اشتهر بعنايته بعلل الحديث وتوثيق الرواة، حتى قُدّم كتابه في الدقة. وانتقل في أواخر عمره إلى مصر ثم الشام، حيث توفي. 1

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Authored
Sunan al-Nasa'i

People and things also explored

The Six Books· Sunan al-Nasa'i· The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity

Sources

  1. Sunan al-Nasaʼi
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The Six Books

The 'six books' of later convention: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud, Jami' al-Tirmidhi, Sunan al-Nasa'i and Sunan Ibn Majah — the principal chapter-arranged hadith collections that became the community's widest hadith reference from the fifth century; some lists substitute the Muwatta or the Musnad of Ahmad for Ibn Majah.