Rihla · origin → death · الرحلة في طلب الحديث
The migration of the narrators من أين إلى أين
Where a narrator was from against where he died — the diagonal is rootedness, everything off it is the flow of knowledge. Rows are origin, columns are place of death; a cell is the count who made that move. Both endpoints are read deterministically from البلدان/nisba and بلد الوفاة.
3446 with both endpoints
888 moved region
2558 stayed
stayed (diagonal)
migrated
| from ↓ / died → | al-Ḥijāz | al-Yaman | al-ʿIrāq | al-Jazīra | al-Shām | al-Thughūr | Miṣr | al-Maghrib wa-Ifrīqiya | al-Andalus | al-Jibāl wa-Fāris | Ṭabaristān wa-Jurjān | Khurāsān | Mā warāʾ al-Nahr | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| al-Ḥijāzالحجاز | 262 | 2 | 35 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 19 | · | · | 8 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 357 ↗95 |
| al-Yamanاليمن | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | · | 3 | 2 | · | · | · | 1 | · | 25 ↗18 |
| al-ʿIrāqالعراق | 56 | 1 | 1024 | 22 | 47 | 20 | 44 | 2 | 2 | 40 | · | 34 | 12 | 1304 ↗280 |
| al-Jazīraالجزيرة | · | · | 9 | 43 | 11 | 2 | 7 | · | · | · | · | · | · | 72 ↗29 |
| al-Shāmالشام | 24 | · | 37 | 7 | 430 | 4 | 62 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 612 ↗182 |
| al-Thughūrالثغور وبلاد الروم | 1 | · | 3 | · | 2 | 16 | 1 | · | · | · | 1 | 1 | · | 25 ↗9 |
| Miṣrمصر | 8 | · | 15 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 282 | 14 | 5 | 1 | · | 6 | · | 362 ↗80 |
| al-Maghrib wa-Ifrīqiyaالمغرب وإفريقية | 1 | · | 1 | · | 3 | · | 7 | 11 | 1 | · | · | · | · | 24 ↗13 |
| al-Andalusالأندلس | 2 | · | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | 7 | 5 | 57 | 2 | · | · | 1 | 77 ↗20 |
| al-Jibāl wa-Fārisالجبال وفارس | 6 | · | 27 | · | 6 | 2 | 2 | · | · | 133 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 192 ↗59 |
| Ṭabaristān wa-Jurjānطبرستان وجرجان | 4 | · | 2 | · | · | 1 | · | · | · | 1 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 32 ↗19 |
| Khurāsānخراسان | 13 | · | 20 | · | 6 | · | 1 | · | · | 11 | 3 | 249 | 15 | 318 ↗69 |
| Mā warāʾ al-Nahrما وراء النهر | 1 | · | 6 | · | 3 | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | 4 | 31 | 46 ↗15 |
Only the narrators with a mappable birth-region and a recorded place of death appear here (بلد الوفاة is sparse), so this is a lower bound on mobility, not a full census. A cell links to those exact narrators. ← the space × time atlas