At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · Levant & Iraq · Arabia
- Review
- Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
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People and things also explored
Al-Sam'ani's third journey with his son 'Abd al-Rahim to Transoxiana, 549-552/1154-1157· Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali· Ibn 'Asakir's second great journey east, 529-533/1135-1139· Ibn Sina (Avicenna)· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Dawud's first journey: Baghdad, Basra and Mecca, 220/835· Al-Sakhawi's hajj of 896 and final settling in Medina, 1491· Al-Sakhawi's first pilgrimage by sea with his mother and family, 870/1466
Sources
- Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 120
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 1024
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Sam'ani's first great hadith journey, 529-538/1135-1143”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/samani-first-rihla-529/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-02.