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- Abbasid Fragmentation
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- Persia & Central Asia
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Summary
Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj died on the eve of Sunday and was buried at Nasrabad outside Nishapur on Monday, five nights before the end of Rajab, in 261, aged fifty-five lunar years 1 — which fixes his birth in 206 1. He had filled the world with learning, so that the memoriser Abu Ali al-Naysaburi said: "there is no book under the vault of the sky sounder than Muslim's book in the science of hadith" 2 1.
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- Had participant
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
- Occurred at
- Nishapur
People and things also explored
Birth of Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj at Nishapur, c. 206/821· «Muhammad ibn Isma'il is the most learned man to enter Nishapur», 247/861· Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj compiles the Jami' al-Sahih over fifteen years, c. 246-261/860-875· Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj's first hearing of hadith, 218/833· Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj walks out of al-Dhuhli's circle over the lafz question, c. 250/864· Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj· Nishapur· The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan , v p. 195
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.2 p. 527
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes
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islam.museum contributors. “Death of Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj at Nasrabad outside Nishapur, 25 Rajab 261/875”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/death-muslim-nasrabad-261/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.