Vida y obras de Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī (d. Basra, 275/889) was a prominent collector of prophetic hadith. He seems to have collected in Iraq, Mecca, and Syria A.H. 220-35, then Khurasan till the early 240s, then Iraq, Syria, and Egypt till around 250. He claimed to have collected 500,000 in all. He spent most of th...

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Main Author: Christopher Melchert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2008-06-01
Series:Al-Qantara : Revista de Estudios Arabes
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Online Access:http://al-qantara.revistas.csic.es/index.php/al-qantara/article/view/48