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Al-Nuwayri in the audition sessions: Sahih al-Bukhari under Wazira bint al-Munadhdha, 715/1315

النويري في مجالس الإسماع: صحيح البخاري على الشيخة وزيرة، ٧١٥هـ/١٣١٥م

1315 CE · 715 AH

Cairo

Al-Nuwayri kept a lifelong interest in the teaching of hadith: he attended the shaykha Wazira bint al-Munadhdha's (d. 716) transmission sessions of Sahih al-Bukhari in 715/1315, likewise those of al-Salihi al-Hajjar (d. 730) at the Mansuriyya madrasa; he heard the Sunan of Abu Dawud from Ibn al-Sabuni (d. 720), the Kitab al-Shifa from Abd al-Haqq ibn Fityan al-Qurashi in 708/1308 at the Nasiriyya, and Malik's Muwatta' and Sahih Muslim from the Sharif Izz al-Din al-Dimashqi (d. 715); among his masters were Abd al-Mu'min al-Dimyati, Ibn Daqiq al-Id, chief qadi Ibn Jama'a and the shaykha Zaynab bint Yahya 1.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile

In time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Cairo

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Summary

In 715/1315 al-Nuwayri attended the shaykha Wazira bint al-Munadhdha's (d. 716) transmission sessions of Sahih al-Bukhari — part of a lifelong interest in the teaching of hadith 1.

His masters and auditions

Among his shaykhs: Abd al-Mu'min al-Dimyati (d. 705), whose Kitab Fadl al-Khayl he quotes often; the hadith specialist Ibn Daqiq al-Id (d. 702); chief qadi Ibn Jama'a (d. 733), shaykh of the Nasiriyya khankah; and the shaykha Zaynab bint Yahya ibn Abd al-Salam (d. 735). He also attended al-Salihi al-Hajjar's (d. 730) sessions at the Mansuriyya, heard the Sunan of Abu Dawud from Ibn al-Sabuni (d. 720), the Kitab al-Shifa from Abd al-Haqq ibn Fityan in 708 at the Nasiriyya, and Malik's Muwatta' and Sahih Muslim from the Sharif Izz al-Din al-Dimashqi (d. 715); Izz al-Din al-Faruthi also gave him an ijaza 1.

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al-Nuwayri· Wazira bint al-Munadhdha
Occurred at
Cairo

People and things also explored

The second copy of the Nihaya: eighteen volumes in under ten months, 721-722/1321-1322· Al-Nuwayri's death at Cairo, 21 Ramadan 733/5 June 1333· The Iwan al-Bahri dream: al-Nuwayri still at the Nasiriyya, 13 Dhu al-Qa'da 729/8 September 1329· Ibn Abbada has al-Nuwayri flogged and confiscates his property, c. 710/1310· Al-Nuwayri joins the diwan al-khass and resides at the Nasiriyya, 698/1298· Composition of the Nihaya begins: volume one dated 714/1314· Recall to Cairo as mubashir of the royal estates and Mansuri waqfs, Ramadan 703/1304· Return from Tripoli to Cairo and the Delta inspectorate, 712/1312

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 156
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Nuwayri in the audition sessions: Sahih al-Bukhari under Wazira bint al-Munadhdha, 715/1315”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/nuwayri-bukhari-sama-715/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-02.

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The second copy of the Nihaya: eighteen volumes in under ten months, 721-722/1321-1322

Al-Nuwayri began a second copy of his encyclopaedia, completing its first volume on 20 Dhu al-Qa'da 721/11 December 1321, the fifth on 22 Jumada I 722/8 June 1322, the seventeenth on 7 Ramadan 722/19 September and the eighteenth on 26 Ramadan/8 October — eighteen volumes in under ten months. His biographers noted his capacity to fill three manuscript notebooks in a day; besides the copies he made and sold there were eight copies of the Sahih of al-Bukhari — he wrote the copy, filled it, carried over its collations and readings and finished it off in a thousand — and he was deemed an excellent calligrapher and bookbinder.