100 AH
Approximate date
Fearing knowledge will die with the scholars, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz orders the hadith written down. Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri leads the first official collection.
Umar ibn Abd al-AzizIbn Shihab al-Zuhri
Source: Bukhari, History ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
