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Birth of Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, 202/817

مولد أبي داود السجستاني ٢٠٢هـ

c. 817 CE · 202 AH

Sijistan

Abu Ubayd al-Ajurri reported him saying: I was born in the year two hundred and two 1, and the Encyclopaedia of Islam confirms the year 202/817 2. His nisba points to the province of Sijistan bordering Sind, not to a village near Basra as some wrongly held 3.

Depth

At a glance

Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Persia & Central Asia

In time

800810820830 c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate

In space

Sijistan

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Overview

Abu Dawud, Sulayman ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Ishaq ibn Bashir ibn Shaddad ibn 'Amr ibn 'Imran al-Azdi al-Sijistani, was born in the year two hundred and two 1, around 817 CE 2, his nisba pointing to the province of Sijistan bordering the lands of Sind 3.

A nisba clarified

Some wrongly claimed Sijistan was a village near Basra; al-Dhahabi answers that Sijistan is a distinct province reached from the side of Herat, and that Abu Dawud had entered Baghdad before ever coming to Basra 3.

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Had participant
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
Occurred at
Sijistan
During the reign of
Abd Allah al-Ma'mun ibn Harun al-Rashid

People and things also explored

Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani· Abu 'Ali al-Lu'lu'i· Abu Dawud al-Sijistani· Sijistan· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· Census of the Descendants of al-Abbas in the Year 200· Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir's Sijistan· Abu Dawud's wider journey: Egypt, the Jazira, Harran and Aleppo

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 358
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 133
  3. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 361
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Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani

Abu Bakr Abd Allah ibn Sulayman ibn al-Ash'ath al-Sijistani, son of the author of the Sunan, whom al-Dhahabi's Mizan al-I'tidal calls the trustworthy hafiz and author of works, one of the great hafizes and leading figures. Al-Dhahabi lists what was said against him — his father's word about him and Ibrahim al-Isbahani's charge of lying, al-Daraqutni's 'trustworthy, but often in error when speaking on hadith', Ibn Adi's 'accepted by the hadith scholars' — and his quarrels with Ibn Sa'id and Ibn Jarir, and includes him in order to defend him. Ibn al-Nadim lists his Kitab al-Masahif, a Tafsir and other books; he died in 316 AH.