Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī (; (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a

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's six canonical hadith collections, '' Sunan Ibn Mājah''.

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Biography

Ibn Mājah was born in Qazwin, the modern-day

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ian province of Qazvin, in 824 CE/209 AH to a family who were members (''

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'') of the Rabīʻah tribe. ''Mājah'' was the nickname of his father, and not that of his grandfather nor was it his mother's name, contrary to those claiming this. The ''hāʼ'' at the end is un-voweled whether in stopping upon its pronunciation or continuing because it a non-Arabic name. He left his hometown to travel the

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, the

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. He studied under

Ibn Abi Shaybah Ibn Abī Shaybah or Imām Abū Bakr Ibn Abī Shaybah or Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Ibn Abī Shaybah Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿAbsī al-Kūfī (Arabic: امام أبو بكر عبد الله بن محمد بن أبي شيبة إب� ...

(through whom came over a quarter of ''al-Sunan''), Muḥammad ibn ʻAbdillāh ibn Numayr, Jubārah ibn al-Mughallis, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir al-Ḥizāmī, ʻAbdullāh ibn Muʻāwiyah, Hishām ibn ʻAmmār, Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ, Dāwūd ibn Rashīd and others from their era. Abū Yaʻlā al-Khalīlī praised Ibn Mājah as "reliable (''thiqah''), prominent, agreed upon, a religious authority, possessing knowledge and the capability to memorize." According to al-Dhahabī, Ibn Mājah died on approximately February 19, 887 CE/with eight days remaining of the month of

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, 273 AH, or, according to al-Kattānī, in either 887/273 or 889/275. He died in Qazwin. What he compiled/did Al-Dhahabī mentioned the following of Ibn Mājah's works: * '' Sunan Ibn Mājah'': one of the six canonical collections of

* ''Kitāb al-Tafsīr'': a book of Qur'an exegesis * ''Kitāb al-Tārīkh'': a book of history or, more likely, a listing of hadith transmitters The last two, though praised by scholars, have been lost. https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/about

The ''Sunan''

The ''Sunan'' consists of 1,500 chapters and about 4,000

. Upon completing it, he read it to Abu Zur’a al-Razi, a hadith authority of his time, who commented, "I think that were people to get their hands on this, the other collections, or most of them, would be rendered obsolete."

References

External links

Biodata at MuslimScholars.info

Biography at Sunnah.com

Sunan Ibn Majah
– Searchable Sunan Ibn Majah Online
Biography of Imam Ibn Maajah at theclearpath.com
*Abu `Abdallah Muhammad ibn Yazid Ibn Maja al-Rab`i al-Qazwini:
Sunan Ibn -e- Majah – 3 Volumes – Translation By Shaykh Muhammad Qasim Ameen
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Biography

The ''Sunan''

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