At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i, a hadith scholar from Nasa in Khurasan, author of the "Sunan" counted among the six books. 1 See the Sunan of al-Nasa'i.
His life
He was born around 215 AH and died around 303 AH; the two dates are approximate in the data. 1
He became known for his care for the defects of hadith and the authentication of its transmitters, so that his book was ranked first in precision. In the last part of his life he moved to Egypt and then to Syria, where he died. 1
Connections
- Authored
- Sunan al-Nasa'i
People and things also explored
The Six Books· Sunan al-Nasa'i· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity
Sources
- Sunan al-Nasaʼi
- Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Nasa'i”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-nasai/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.