The Role of Nayshābūr in the Development of Shaykh Ṣadūq’s Academic Identity and His Compositions

Document Type : Research Article

Author

• Hosein Sattar

Assistant Professor, Kashan University

10.22067/jhistory.2022.69458.1022

Abstract

Shaykh Ṣadūq has been praised for two reasons: The large number of his Mashāyikh and the various Hadith travels that he took. Nayshābūr was one of his destinations. His trip to this city was advantageous both to himself and to the residents of this city. The present study aims to identify Nayshābūr as a city in the 3^rd and 4^th centuries A.H./ 9^th and 10^th centuries A.D., and also to explain the accomplishments of Ṣadūq in this city, as he travelled to collect Ḥadis and seek inspiration to write and preserve Ḥadis and Shīʿa resources. The study also focuses on identifying Ṣadūq’s Mashāyikh in Nayshābūr (especially the non-imamī Mashāyikh and distinguishing between the various schools and sects in Nayshābūr and how the residents showd academic tolerance towards opposing views.
The writer belives that Nayshābūr is the most important city -coming after Qum and Ray (where Ṣadūq resided) - to have provided him with Ḥadis knowledge.

Keywords

• Shaykh Ṣadūq
• Nayshābūr
• Kamāl al-dīn
• Amālī
• Ḥākim Nayshābūrī

Main Subjects

• History of Islamic Civilization

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