Eastern return to Nishapur
· Nishapur, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International · file Al-Bukhari returned east to Nishapur, where he met Ishaq ibn Rahwayh and discussed al-Tarikh al-Kabir. The source gives a range of 222–225 AH, spanning roughly 837–840 CE; 839 is a representative chronological year within that supported range.