'Ulum al-Hadith in Neyshābūr during the First Four Centuries of Islam

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Mahdi Hajian ¹ , Mehrnaz Behroozi ² , Mohamad Sepehri ³

1 - PhD Student of History and Civilization of Islamic Nations, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assist professor of Quran and Hadith Studies, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Professor of History of Islamic civilization, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2018-11-23 Accepted : 2019-01-17 Published : 2018-12-22

Keywords: Neysahbur, &lsquo, Ilm al-Hadith, Hadith Narrators, Shiite Hadith, Dar al-Sunnah,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to examine the state of Hadith science in Neyshābūr during the first four centuries of Islam, a city of the Islamic realm that, with its special geographical location and ideal environmental conditions, which brought together a large number of jurists, scholars and experts of hadith and became a great school in which  many Hadith activities  in the early Islamic centuries were done. We want to show the validity and prosperity of the science of hadith in Neyshābūr, due to the enlightenment of the experts of religion, such as Ali ibn Musā al-Reḍā (AS), and the correction of hadith collections and authentic and well-documented narratives, including the Hadith of the al-Silsilat al-Dhahab, along with the activities of the great and renowned Shiite and popular narrators.  As we shall see, following the attempts made by hadith narrators of the Neyshābūr, many works were compiled by great scholars such as Muslim ibn Hajjāj, Faḍl ibn Shādhān and Ḥākim Neyshābūrī. We will also see the popularity of works such as Ṣaḥiḥ Muslim, which in Neyshābūr have also become a pivotal point for new hadith compositions, such as books od Mustakhraj and Masānid.