Atlas
About this atlas
The atlas holds the chains of transmission from the Prophet as the standard references and the classical sources record them: the Sufi orders, the chains of Qurʾān recitation, the teachers of the schools of law and ḥadīth, and the lines of the Prophet's family, with the places they spread and the living houses and teachers who carry them today. Every link shows its sources; where they differ, both readings are shown, and we do not rule on any community's claims. Ibn ʿArabī's own life, teachers and readers are on their own page.
إسحاق بن راهويه
Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh
Died 238/853 (sources differ) · Nishapur
Khurasanian traditionist; teacher of Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
No chain up to the Prophet is recorded for this person in the sources read.
How to read the marks
- Two sources: a solid rule. Two independent references give the same link.
- One source: a lighter rule, so labelled.
- The community's own account: a dotted rule. The order tells it; we have not yet read it against a reference source.
- A gap in the rule: the sources omit names between the two. The label says which.
- The sources differ: tap the ≠ to read each reading with its source.
- A ring: a spiritual link, without a meeting (uwaysī).
Who received from Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh
3 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Aḥmad b. Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾīالنسائي
two sourcesin Schools of law and ḥadīth
studied with · Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh to Aḥmad b. Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī · Two independent sources
Siyar lists Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh among al-Nasāʾī's teachers.
al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, entry al-Nasāʾī (OpenITI Shamela0010906, line 155105)Checked against
- al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, Shamela0003722 #L10447 · agreesIsḥāq’s heading carries the sign for al-Nasāʾī; his entry also quotes al-Nasāʾī on him.
- Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-aʿyān, Shamela0001000 #L3396 · silentIbn Khallikān names al-Bukhārī, Muslim and al-Tirmidhī as hearers of Isḥāq, not al-Nasāʾī.
- Dāwūd b. ʿAlī al-Ẓāhirīداود بن علي الظاهري
two sourcesin Schools of law and ḥadīth
studied with · Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh to Dāwūd b. ʿAlī al-Ẓāhirī · Two independent sources
Siyar: Dāwūd travelled to Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh and heard his Musnad and Tafsīr from him.
al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, entry Dāwūd b. ʿAlī (OpenITI Shamela0010906, line 145288)Checked against
- Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-aʿyān, Shamela0001000 #L13445 · agreesIbn Khallikān: Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī took knowledge from Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh and Abū Thawr; he was a partisan of al-Shāfiʿī.
- al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, Shamela0003722 #L10447 · silentDāwūd has no Tahdhīb entry; the Tahdhīb covers only the Six Books’ narrators.
- Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhīالترمذي
two sourcesin Schools of law and ḥadīth
studied with · Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh to Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī · Two independent sources
Siyar lists Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh among al-Tirmidhī's teachers.
al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, entry al-Tirmidhī (OpenITI Shamela0010906, line 148077)Checked against
- al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, Shamela0003722 #L10447 · agreesIsḥāq’s heading carries the signs for al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī.
- Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-aʿyān, Shamela0001000 #L3396 · agreesIbn Khallikān: al-Bukhārī, Muslim and al-Tirmidhī heard from Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/ishaq-b-rahawayh (data of 31 October 2026).