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Roles: Scholar
Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Levant & Iraq
Identifiers: Wikidata

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Taught: Ibn Khuzayma, Muhammad ibn Ishaq
Participated in: Al-Tirmidhi hears the masters of Marw: Mahmud ibn Ghaylan, Ali ibn Hujr and Abd ibn Humayd, c. 240/854

People and things also explored

Marw· Abd ibn Humayd al-Kissi· al-Baghawi Ahmad ibn Mani· Al Bukhari· al-Muzani· Al-Rabi ibn Sulayman al-Muradi· Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa· Ishaq ibn Rahwayh

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al-Alam — al-Zirikli

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Marw

Marw, the great city of Khurasan; its marzban's envoy al-Shahijan sued for peace and Hatim ibn al-Nu'man compounded it at a million two hundred thousand — variants: a million dirhams with two hundred thousand jarib of grain, or a million one hundred thousand uqiyya — the terms widening Muslim housing, all of it sulh save the village al-Sanj taken by force.