Ibn 'Asakir's hajj and hearings at Mecca and Kufa on the way back, 521/1127

حج ابن عساكر وسماعه بمكة والكوفة في طريق العودة، ٥٢١هـ/١١٢٧م

1127 CE · 521 AH

Mecca → Medina → Kufa

In 521 Ibn 'Asakir made the pilgrimage; at Mecca he heard 'Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ghazzal al-Misri, pupil of Karima al-Marwaziyya, and at Kufa he heard 'Umar ibn Ibrahim al-'Alawi 1; he passed some time at Mecca and Medina and stopped at Kufa on his way back to Baghdad 2.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Arabia · Levant & Iraq

In time

1110112011301140
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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MeccaMedinaKufa

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Ibn 'Asakir
Occurred at
Mecca· Medina· Kufa
During the reign of
al-Mustarshid bi'llah al-Fadl ibn al-Mustazhir

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Al-Sam'ani's first great hadith journey, 529-538/1135-1143· Abdullah ibn Mas'ud· Ahmad ibn Hanbal· Hashim ibn Utba al-Mirqal· Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas· Sabil (public water fountain)· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Al-Sakhawi's hajj of 896 and final settling in Medina, 1491

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 71
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 746
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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.