Al-Khatib journeys to Nishapur and Isfahan at twenty-three, 415/1024

رحلة الخطيب إلى نيسابور وإصبهان وهو ابن ثلاث وعشرين، ٤١٥هـ

c. 1024 CE · c. 415 AH

Al-Khatib travelled to Nishapur at twenty-three and then on to Isfahan. He had consulted al-Barqani whether to journey to Ibn al-Nahhas in Egypt or to the circle of al-Asamm's companions at Nishapur; al-Barqani told him that in Egypt there was one man and the journey would be lost if he missed him, while Nishapur held many — and wrote with him a letter of recommendation to Abu Nu'aym ¹.

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At twenty-three, about 415, he travelled to Nishapur and then Isfahan; al-Barqani had advised Nishapur over Egypt — a whole circle of teachers rather than a single man — and wrote with him a letter of recommendation to Abu Nu'aym ¹.

Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi

The hafiz Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn Thabit, known as al-Khatib al-Baghdadi — Baghdad's traditionist, its historian and, for later generations, the seal of the memorizers of his age; born in 392, son of the preacher of Darzijan below Baghdad, he began hearing hadith at eleven, journeyed to Basra at twenty, to Nishapur at twenty-three and on to Isfahan, made the hajj with hearings at Damascus, Tyre and Mecca and read Sahih al-Bukhari in five days upon Karima al-Marwaziyya, left Baghdad after the Basasiri fitna in 451 to reside in al-Sham and then Tyre, visiting Jerusalem, until he re-entered Baghdad in Dhu al-Hijja 462 and the Baghdadis heard his Tarikh Baghdad from him at the Nizamiyya madrasa; long a Hanbali, he was driven by the hostility of its partisans to the Shafi'i school; about sixty works are counted for him; he died on Monday 7 Dhu al-Hijja 463 and was buried at Bab Harb beside Bishr al-Hafi.

Al-Khatib journeys to Nishapur and Isfahan at twenty-three, 415/1024

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