At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
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Overview
Sa'id ibn Mansur ibn Shu'ba, the hafiz and imam, shaykh of the Haram Abu 'Uthman al-Khurasani al-Marwazi — also given as al-Taliqani, then al-Balkhi, then the Meccan resident — author of Kitab al-Sunan. 1
Travels
He heard in Khurasan, the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Syria and al-Jazira from Malik ibn Anas, al-Layth ibn Sa'd, Hushaym, Hammad ibn Zayd, Fudayl ibn 'Iyad, Sufyan ibn 'Uyayna, Yahya ibn Abi Za'ida and many others. He died in 227 AH. 1
Connections
People and things also explored
Abd Allah ibn Maslama al-Qanabi· Qutayba ibn Sa'id· Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj's hadith journeys to the Hijaz, Iraq, Syria and Egypt, c. 215/830· Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj· Birth of Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj at Nishapur, c. 206/821· «Muhammad ibn Isma'il is the most learned man to enter Nishapur», 247/861· Death of Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj at Nasrabad outside Nishapur, 25 Rajab 261/875· Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj hears Ahmad ibn Hanbal and gathers his Questions, c. 220/835
Sources
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.1832
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Sa'id ibn Mansur”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/said-ibn-mansur/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.