Al-Sam'ani returns to Marw, marries, and his son 'Abd al-Rahim is born, 538/1143

عودة السمعاني إلى مرو واستقراره وتزوّجه وولادة ابنه عبد الرحيم، ٥٣٨هـ/١١٤٣م

c. 1143 CE · 538 AH

Merv

Al-Sam'ani returned to his home town Marw in 538 (1143), married, and his son Abu al-Muzaffar 'Abd al-Rahim was born; he devoted himself to the boy and gave him many hearings 1. The Shadharat dates 'Abd al-Rahim's birth to 537 2.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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1130114011501160 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Merv

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al-Sam'ani· Ibn al-Salah gathers the science of hadith in Khurasan: Nishapur and Marw, c. 605· Ibn 'Asakir's second great journey east, 529-533/1135-1139· Death of the hafiz al-Sam'ani at Marw, Monday 1 Rabi' I 562/26 December 1166· Death of Abu Bakr al-Sam'ani; the boy 'Abd al-Karim is raised by his two learned uncles, 510/1116· Al-Sam'ani casts down the staff of travel at Marw: teaching at the Amidiyya and composing, c. 552/1157· Al-Sam'ani's third journey with his son 'Abd al-Rahim to Transoxiana, 549-552/1154-1157· Three years among the waqf libraries of Marw, and the idea of the Mujam al-Buldan, 615/1218

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  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 120
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 75
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The imam Abu Sa'd Taj al-Islam 'Abd al-Karim ibn Muhammad al-Sam'ani al-Tamimi al-Marwazi al-Shafi'i, traditionist of the East; born at Marw on Monday 21 Sha'ban 506/10 February 1113, he made three great hadith journeys across Khurasan, Iraq, the Hijaz, al-Sham and Transoxiana — his teachers were said to number seven thousand — then settled at Marw teaching at the Amidiyya madrasa; author of al-Ansab in 350 folios, epitomised by Ibn al-Athir as al-Lubab and by al-Suyuti as Lubb al-Lubab, of al-Tahbir fi al-Mujam al-Kabir, of a Dhayl to the Tarikh Baghdad and of Tarikh Marw and Mujam al-Buldan; he died at Marw on Monday 1 Rabi' I 562/26 December 1166.