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The Tarikh-i Bayhaqi serves as both a historical record and a literary masterpiece, influencing subsequent Persian historians and solidifying Bayhaqi’s reputation as a pioneer in historiography. His ability to blend personal observation with broader historical analysis set a new standard for Persian historical narratives.
Bayhaqi stated the Tarik-i Bayhaq was written using an earlier history of Bayhaq and the Târîkh `Ulamâ' Ahl Naysabûr by Al-Hakim Nishapuri. [1] Bayhaq makes note of Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi 's work, Tarikh-i Bayhaqi , stating it consisted of 30 volumes and that he had seen partial sets in Sarakhs and Nishapur, but never complete sets.
Bayhaqi was born in the village of Harethabad in Bayhaq in the Khorasan Province to a Persian family. [1] In his youth Bayhaqi studied in the major cultural center of Nishapur, and later in 1020/1 joined the secretariat (dīvān-e resālat) of Mahmud, where he worked as an assistant and pupil under the chief secretary Abu Nasr Mushkan for 19 years.
Bayhaqi was born in Sabzevar, in northeastern Iran, the main city of the Bayhaq district, where his father’s estates were located. [1]In 1114, Bahyaqi along with his father visited Omar Khayyam, the famous Persian mathematician and astronomer, in Nishapur and while there Bayhaqi began his education in literature and science.
Al-Bayhaqi also explained the doctrines of the followers and those after them, such as Abu Thawr, Al-Hasan al-Basri and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, and he arranged it according to the arrangement of Al-Muzani. The old sayings of Al-Shafi’i are sometimes cited, and the book has some comments from the transcription of a hadith, the translation of a ...
Al-Bayhaqi's writings reflected the new Shafi'i orthodoxy. Works like Sunan al-Kubra and Al-Sunan al-Wusta championed the body of substantive law of the school and the Shafi'i transmission-based legal methodology. [26] Al-Bayhaqi represents the school's steadfast adherence to the hadith's primacy, which its founder had argued for. [27]
Al-Asma' wa al-Sifat by Al-Bayhaqi; Al-Durrah fi ma Yazibu Itiqaduhu by Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi; Al-I'tqaad alaa Madhabis-Salaf Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaah by Al-Bayhaqi; Hayat ul Anbiya fi Quboor by Al-Bayhaqi; Al-Ishara ila Madhhab Ahl al-Haqq by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi [28] Kashf ul Mahjoob by Ali Hujwiri
Al-Dhahabi said there is nothing like it and considered it to be one of the four masterpieces a scholar cannot do without, alongside al-Muhalla by Ibn Hazm, al-Mughni by Ibn Qudamah, and al-Tamhid by Ibn Abd al-Barr. [4] Taj al-Din al-Subki said no other book had been written with such classification, arrangement, and elegance. [5]