Al-Sibghi entrusts Dar al-Sunna to al-Hakim, 342/953

الصبغي يوصي للحاكم بأمور دار السنة، ٣٤٢هـ

c. December 953 CE · Sha'ban 342 AH

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Al-Hakim attached himself to the imam of his age, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ishaq al-Sibghi, who consulted him on questions of rijal criticism and 'ilal and, at his death in Sha'ban 342/953, bequeathed to him the management of his school Dar al-Sunna and delegated to him the charge of its endowments 1 2.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Al-Hakim kept the special company of the imam Abu Bakr al-Sibghi, who consulted him on questions, rijal criticism and 'ilal, and bequeathed to him the management of his school Dar al-Sunna with charge of its endowments 1.

Al-Sibghi's death

Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ishaq al-Sibghi died in Sha'ban 342/953; he had given fatwas for more than fifty years without a single error being recorded against him 2.

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al-Hakim al-Nisaburi· Abu Bakr al-Sibghi
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Al-Hakim begins his compilations, 337/948· Death of al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, 3 Safar 405/1014· Al-Hakim al-Nisaburi's first hearing of hadith, 330/941· Al-Hakim serves as Ibn Hibban's mustamli, 334/945· Al-Talamanaki writes the sciences of hadith from al-Hakim's circle, 389/999· Hearing hadith from al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, before 405/1014· al-Bayhaqi· al-Hakim al-Nisaburi

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  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 128
  2. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 256
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