Al-Nasa'i

Al-Nasa'i
النسائي
Personal life
Bornc. 829 AD (214 AH)
Nasā, Khorasan, Abbasid Caliphate
Diedc. 915 (303 AH) (aged 85–56)
Ramla or Mecca, Abbasid Caliphate
NationalityCaliphate
EraIslamic golden age
(Abbasid era)
RegionAbbasid Caliphate
Main interest(s)Hadith and fiqh
Notable work(s)Sunan al-Nasa'i
As-Sunan al-Kubra
Khasais of Amir Al Momenin
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi‘i
Muslim leader
Influenced by

Al-Nasāʾī (214 – 303 AH; c. 829 – 915 CE), full name Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿAlī ibn Sinān ibn Baḥr ibn Dīnar al-Khurasānī al-Nasāʾī (Arabic: أبو عبد الرحمن أحمد بن شعيب النَّسائي), was a noted collector of hadith (sayings of Muhammad), from the city of Nasa (early Khorasan and present day Turkmenistan), and the author of "As-Sunan", one of the six canonical hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims. From his "As-Sunan al-Kubra (The Large Sunan)" he wrote an abridged version, "Al-Mujtaba" or Sunan al-Sughra (The Concise Sunan). Of the fifteen books he is known to have written, six treat the science of hadīth.