Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasaʾi
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Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasaʾi was a prominent 9th–10th century Sunni hadith scholar and one of the six canonical hadith compilers in Islam.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasaʾi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10306206 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasaʾi Context triple: [al-Sunan al-Kubra, author, Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasaʾi]
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Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani was a 9th-century Islamic scholar and hadith compiler best known for authoring one of the six major Sunni hadith collections, Sunan Abu Dawud.
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B.
Muhammad al-Bukhari
Muhammad al-Bukhari was a 9th-century Persian Islamic scholar and hadith compiler renowned for producing Sahih al-Bukhari, one of the most authoritative collections of hadith in Sunni Islam.
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C.
Al-Nawawi
Al-Nawawi was a prominent 13th-century Islamic scholar and jurist renowned for his works in hadith, jurisprudence, and ethics, including "Riyadh al-Salihin" and "Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyya."
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D.
Abu ʿIsa al-Tirmidhi
Abu ʿIsa al-Tirmidhi was a 9th-century Islamic scholar and hadith compiler best known for authoring one of the six major Sunni hadith collections, Jamiʿ al-Tirmidhi.
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E.
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawud
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawud was a 10th-century Muslim hadith scholar and jurist, known as the son and student of the famous traditionist Abu Dawud al-Sijistani and for his own contributions to hadith transmission and Islamic law.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasaʾi Target entity description: Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasaʾi was a prominent 9th–10th century Sunni hadith scholar and one of the six canonical hadith compilers in Islam.
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A.
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani was a 9th-century Islamic scholar and hadith compiler best known for authoring one of the six major Sunni hadith collections, Sunan Abu Dawud.
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B.
Muhammad al-Bukhari
Muhammad al-Bukhari was a 9th-century Persian Islamic scholar and hadith compiler renowned for producing Sahih al-Bukhari, one of the most authoritative collections of hadith in Sunni Islam.
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C.
Al-Nawawi
Al-Nawawi was a prominent 13th-century Islamic scholar and jurist renowned for his works in hadith, jurisprudence, and ethics, including "Riyadh al-Salihin" and "Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyya."
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D.
Abu ʿIsa al-Tirmidhi
Abu ʿIsa al-Tirmidhi was a 9th-century Islamic scholar and hadith compiler best known for authoring one of the six major Sunni hadith collections, Jamiʿ al-Tirmidhi.
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E.
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawud
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawud was a 10th-century Muslim hadith scholar and jurist, known as the son and student of the famous traditionist Abu Dawud al-Sijistani and for his own contributions to hadith transmission and Islamic law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic scholar
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Sunni Muslim ⓘ author ⓘ hadith scholar ⓘ |
| approximateBirthDate |
c. 214 AH
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c. 829 CE ⓘ |
| approximateDeathDate |
303 AH
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915 CE ⓘ |
| areaOfExpertise |
evaluation of hadith transmitters
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hadith collection and classification ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Nasa, Khurasan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Palestine
NERFINISHED
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Ramla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Sunni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| doctrine | Sunni orthodoxy ⓘ |
| era |
10th century
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9th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Persian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic jurisprudence
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hadith ⓘ hadith criticism ⓘ |
| fullName | Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿAli ibn Sinan al-Nasaʾi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later Sunni hadith scholars ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
NERFINISHED
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Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Bukhari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Kutub al-Sittah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Imam al-Nasaʾi
NERFINISHED
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al-Nasaʾi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
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Persian ⓘ |
| movement | Ahl al-Hadith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | compiling one of the six canonical Sunni hadith collections ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Khasāʾis ʿAli
NERFINISHED
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al-Duʿaʾ NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Sunan al-Kubra NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Sunan al-Sughra NERFINISHED ⓘ ʿAmal al-Yawm wa al-Layla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Khurasan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schoolTradition | Sunni hadith tradition ⓘ |
| taughtIn |
Damascus
NERFINISHED
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Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| travelledTo |
Egypt
NERFINISHED
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Hijaz NERFINISHED ⓘ Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasaʾi Description of subject: Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasaʾi was a prominent 9th–10th century Sunni hadith scholar and one of the six canonical hadith compilers in Islam.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.