At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In time
Summary
Al-Bayhaqi travelled through many lands in pursuit of hadith and is credited with transmitting from about a hundred shaykhs; in creed he was an Ash'arite, and by character frugal, pious and scholarly 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Bayhaqi
- Occurred at
- Bayhaq
People and things also explored
Al-Bayhaqi's letter to the vizier Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri, c. 446/1054· al-Bayhaqi· Bayhaq· Al-Baghdadi teaches in seventeen fields at Nishapur as Khurasan's imams study under him, c. 425/1033· Final settlement at Nishapur and the thousand fascicules, c. 457/1065· Hearing hadith from al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, before 405/1014· Tughril Beg dies, al-Kunduri falls, and the cursing is rescinded, 456/1064· The pulpit-cursing ordeal opens at Nishapur, 445/1053
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1190
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Travels in pursuit of hadith, c. 430/1038”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/bayhaqi-rihla-hadith-430/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.