Al-Nasa'i's journey to Qutayba ibn Sa'id at Balkh, aged fifteen, c. 230/844

رحلة النسائي إلى قتيبة بن سعيد ببلخ وهو ابن خمس عشرة سنة، نحو ٢٣٠هـ

c. 844 CE · c. 230 AH

Balkh

Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i journeyed to Qutayba ibn Sa'id al-Thaqafi — shaykh of al-Bukhari and Muslim and the muhaddith of Khurasan resident at Balkh — when he was fifteen, and said: 'I stayed with him a year and two months' 1 2.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate

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Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i journeyed to Qutayba ibn Sa'id al-Thaqafi — shaykh of al-Bukhari and Muslim and the muhaddith of Khurasan resident at Balkh — when he was fifteen, and said: 'I stayed with him a year and two months' 1 2.

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He kept the hadith of Ibn Lahi'a in his notebooks as received through Qutayba yet would not teach them, until Abu Talib Ahmad ibn Nasr the hafiz said: 'Who could endure what al-Nasa'i endures?' 3.

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al-Nasa'i· Qutayba ibn Sa'id
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Al-Tirmidhi hears Qutayba ibn Sa'id, before 240/854· al-Nasa'i· Qutayba ibn Sa'id· Abu Dawud in Khurasan: Qutayba and Ibn Rahwayh, before 240/854· Balkh's Sulh and al-Ahnaf's Khwarizm March· Asad ibn Abdallah's Khurasan· Birth of Imam Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i at Nasa in Khurasan, 215/830· Death of Imam al-Nasa'i at al-Ramla from the after-effects of the Damascus assault, 13 Safar 303/915

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  1. Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.2 p. 617
  2. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 106
  3. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 108
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Al-Tirmidhi hears Qutayba ibn Sa'id, before 240/854

Qutayba ibn Sa'id ibn Jamil, Abu Raja' al-Baghlani — shaykh of the two shaykhs al-Bukhari and Muslim — was one of the eight masters from whom al-Tirmidhi narrated most heavily in his Sunan, his intake from them amounting to three quarters of the book; the hearing falls before Qutayba's death in 240/854 and forms a stop of his Khurasan journey.