Al-Qushayri at Baghdad, teaching hadith in the caliph al-Qa'im's palace, 448/1056

القشيري ببغداد محدّثاً في قصر القائم، ٤٤٨هـ

1056 CE · 448 AH

Baghdad

Al-Qushayri's wanderings in the ordeal reached Baghdad, where he came before the caliph al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah and was received with favour: a session was held for him in the caliph's own residence, in his presence and under his eye, and a decree of honour was issued for him — the Encyclopaedia of Islam dates al-Qa'im's commission to teach hadith in the palace to 448/1056 1 2.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Baghdad

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Al-Qushayri's wanderings in the ordeal reached Baghdad, where he came before the caliph al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah and was received with favour: a session was held for him in the caliph's own residence, in his presence and under his eye, and a decree of honour was issued for him — the Encyclopaedia of Islam dates al-Qa'im's commission to teach hadith in the palace to 448/1056 1 2.

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Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri· al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah Hamza ibn al-Mutawakkil
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Baghdad

People and things also explored

Al-Mawardi carries the caliph's rescript to Jalal al-Dawla over the Jawali, 434/1042-3· Al-Qushayri's first hadith dictation sessions, 437/1046· Al-Tusi succeeds al-Murtada as head of Baghdad's Shi'a, 436/1044· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· al-Bimaristan al-Muqtadiri· Bimaristan al-Sayyida

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 5 p. 564
  2. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 175
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Al-Mawardi carries the caliph's rescript to Jalal al-Dawla over the Jawali, 434/1042-3

In 434 AH the Jawali was opened in early Muharram, and the king Jalal al-Dawla sent men to bar the caliph's servants from it and seize what they had collected. This weighed on the caliph al-Qa'im, and his rescript went out to Jalal al-Dawla with al-Mawardi as the messenger — 'the rescript went out from the caliph and I was the messenger', he says — censuring his breach of oaths and repudiation of what he had covenanted over the Jawali. The EI2 counts it the third of his four missions.