At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Summary
Abu al-Abbas al-Shaybani al-Nasawi, the hadith master of Khurasan in his age. He travelled widely: in Khurasan he heard from Habban ibn Musa, Ishaq ibn Ibrahim, Qutayba and Ali ibn Hujr; in Baghdad, from Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Yahya ibn Maʿin and Abu Khaythama; in Basra, from Abu Kamil, Hudba and Shayban ibn Farrukh; in Kufa, from Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shayba; in the Hijaz, from Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir al-Hizami; in Egypt, from Harun ibn Said al-Ayli, Abu Tahir and Harmala; and in al-Sham, from Safwan ibn Salih, Hisham ibn Khalid, al-Musayyab ibn Wadih and Hisham ibn Ammar. 1.
He compiled the large Musnad, the Jami and the Mujam, and transmitted the works of Ibn al-Mubarak. He studied jurisprudence under Abu Thawr and gave legal opinions according to his school. Khurasan was the destination of those who travelled in search of hadith, and they came to him there. 1.
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 215
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Hasan ibn Sufyan al-Nasawi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-hasan-ibn-sufyan-al-nasawi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.