Ibn 'Abd al-Barr begins the hadith quest at Cordoba, about 385/995

ابن عبد البر يطلب الحديث بقرطبة، نحو ٣٨٥هـ

c. 995 CE · c. 385 AH

Cordoba

Ibn 'Abd al-Barr took up the hadith quest in 'three hundred and eighty-something', years before the hafiz al-Khatib al-Baghdadi was born; he transmitted from Khalf ibn al-Qasim, 'Abd al-Warith ibn Sufyan, Abu al-Walid ibn al-Faradi and Abu 'Amr al-Talamanki — fewer than seventy shaykhs in all 1 — heard the Sunan of Abu Dawud on a high isnad from Ibn 'Abd al-Mu'min and read al-Za'farani's book under Ibn Dayfun 2.

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Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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In time

98099010001010 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Cordoba

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The hadith quest

Ibn 'Abd al-Barr took up the quest for hadith in 'three hundred and eighty-something', years before the hafiz Abu Bakr al-Khatib was born, and he persevered in it with an obsessive devotion that outshone the Andalusians before him 1 2.

The shaykhs

He transmitted from Khalf ibn al-Qasim, 'Abd al-Warith ibn Sufyan, Abu al-Walid ibn al-Faradi and Abu 'Amr al-Talamanki — fewer than seventy shaykhs, and he never journeyed for hadith 1 3; he heard the Sunan of Abu Dawud on a high isnad from Ibn 'Abd al-Mu'min and read al-Za'farani's book under Ibn Dayfun 2.

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Ibn 'Abd al-Barr· Abu Umar al-Talamanki
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Cordoba

People and things also explored

Ibn 'Abd al-Barr· Ibn 'Abd al-Barr is born at Cordoba, Friday 25 Rabi' II 368/29 November 978· Ibn 'Abd al-Barr's father Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah dies, Rabi' II 380/990· Ibn 'Abd al-Barr quits Cordoba after the Berber storming, about 403/1013· Abu Umar al-Talamanki· Cordoba· Great Mosque of Córdoba· Library of the Córdoba Palace

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 137
  2. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 141
  3. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 142
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