At a glance
- Roles
- muhaddith
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
In brief
Qutayba b. Sa'id, the shaykh and memoriser, hadith-master of Khurasan, Abu Raja' al-Thaqafi their client, al-Baghlani of Baghdad; born in 149 AH, he heard Malik, al-Layth, Ibn Lahi'a, Sharik, and their layer. 1
Transmission and standing
The whole community of collectors except Ibn Majah narrated from him, along with Musa b. Harun, al-Hasan b. Sufyan, al-Faryabi, Abu al-Abbas al-Sarraj, and many; he was reliable, learned, a man of hadith and travels, and wealthy; Ahmad b. Sayyar said "would that Qutayba stayed with me this winter until I bring you a hundred thousand hadiths from five", Ibn Sayyar said "Qutayba was a man of the sunna who wrote hadith from three generations", Ibn Ma'in called him reliable, and al-Nasa'i "reliable and trustworthy". 1
His death
He died in Sha'ban of 240 AH at ninety-one. 2
Sources
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.2 p.406
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.2 p.407
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Qutayba ibn Sa'id”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/qutayba-ibn-said/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.