Al-Tirmidhi hears Qutayba ibn Sa'id, before 240/854

سماع الترمذي من قتيبة بن سعيد قبل ٢٤٠هـ

c. 850 CE · c. 235 AH

Balkh

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 1; the hearing falls before Qutayba's death in 240/854 and forms a stop of his Khurasan journey 2.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Persia & Central Asia
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate

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Qutayba ibn Sa'id ibn Jamil, Abu Raja' al-Baghlani — the shaykh of the two Shaykhs — was one of the eight masters from whom al-Tirmidhi narrated most heavily in his Sunan, his intake from the eight amounting to three quarters of the book 1.

On his Khurasan journey

His hearing from Qutayba falls before the shaykh's death in 240/854, a stop on al-Tirmidhi's scholarly journey through the lands of Khurasan 2.

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Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa· Qutayba ibn Sa'id
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Balkh

People and things also explored

Al-Nasa'i's journey to Qutayba ibn Sa'id at Balkh, aged fifteen, c. 230/844· Abu Dawud al-Sijistani· Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj· Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa· 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

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 451
  2. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 450-451
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Al-Nasa'i's journey to Qutayba ibn Sa'id at Balkh, aged fifteen, c. 230/844

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'.