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Nishapur

Nishapur (Naysabur), in the Khurasan region of northeastern Iran, was one of the four great cities of medieval Khurasan and a major centre of Shafi'i law, hadith, and Sufism. The hadith master Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (d. 875), compiler of the Sahih, was born and died there, and the Shi'i imam Ali al-Rida (d. 818) passed through it on his way to Tus.

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