Narrator Geography Map — All Collections

Where hadith narrators lived, taught, and transmitted

The hadith sciences flourished across a vast network of cities. This map places narrators in their home cities, revealing the geographic spread of Islamic scholarship from Makkah and Madinah to Khurasan and beyond. Circle size reflects the number of narrators associated with each city.

About this view

Per-collection drill-down requires narrator-to-city links that are still being imported. The All Collections view below shows aggregate city totals across the corpus.

20 cities on map
50+ narrators
10–49 narrators
1–9 narrators
Circle size reflects narrator count (square-root scale)