Ibn al-Salah's first hadith journey at about twenty-four: Baghdad, Dubays and Hamadan, c. 601

رحلة ابن الصلاح الأولى في طلب الحديث: بغداد ودُبَيْس وهمذان، نحو ٦٠١هـ

c. 1204 CE · c. 601 AH

Baghdad → Dubays → Hamadan

When he was a little over twenty, Ibn al-Salah set out for Baghdad, where he heard hadith from Abu Ahmad 'Abd al-Wahhab b. Sukayna and 'Umar b. Tabarzad; at Dubays from Isma'il b. Ibrahim al-Khazzaz; and at Hamadan from Abu al-Fadl b. al-Mu'azzim and a group 1.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

1190120012101220 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

BaghdadHamadan

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Summary

When he was a little over twenty, Ibn al-Salah set out for Baghdad, where he heard hadith from Abu Ahmad 'Abd al-Wahhab b. Sukayna and 'Umar b. Tabarzad. 1

On the road

At Dubays he heard Isma'il b. Ibrahim al-Khazzaz, and at Hamadan Abu al-Fadl b. al-Mu'azzim and a group — the first of his eastern journeys in the pursuit of hadith. 1

Connections

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Had participant
Ibn al-Salah
Occurred at
Baghdad· Dubays· Hamadan

People and things also explored

Al-Sam'ani's first great hadith journey, 529-538/1135-1143· Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· al-Bimaristan al-Muqtadiri· Bimaristan al-Sayyida· Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 185
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Salah's first hadith journey at about twenty-four: Baghdad, Dubays and Hamadan, c. 601”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/ibn-al-salah-rihla-601/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-02.

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Al-Sam'ani's first great hadith journey, 529-538/1135-1143

Al-Sam'ani travelled before and after thirty to Khurasan, Isfahan, Iraq, the Hijaz, al-Sham, Tabaristan and Transoxiana. On this first great journey (529-538/1135-1143) he went via Isfahan and Hamadan to Baghdad and its environs, to Mecca and Medina, to Damascus and Jerusalem — which at his visit in 536/1141 had been in Crusader hands for forty-two years — and north and east to Khwarazm, Samarqand, Bukhara, Balkh and Herat.