Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzaymah ( ar , أبو بكر محمد بن إسحاق بن خزيمة, 837 CE/223 AH
– 923 CE/311 AH
) was a prominent
Muslim Muhaddith
Hadith studies ( ar, علم الحديث ''ʻilm al-ḥadīth'' "science of hadith", also science of hadith, or science of hadith criticism or hadith criticism)
consists of several religious scholarly disciplines used by Muslim scholars in th ...
and
Shafi'i
The Shafii ( ar, شَافِعِي, translit=Shāfiʿī, also spelled Shafei) school, also known as Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, is one of the four major traditional schools of religious law (madhhab) in the Sunnī branch of Islam. It was founded by ...
jurist,
best known for his hadith collection, ''
Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah
''Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah'' ( ar, صحيح ابن خزيمة, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Khuzaymah) is a hadith collection compiled by the ninth-century scholar Ibn Khuzaymah (837 CE/223 AH – 923 CE/311 AH). Description
The book contains almost three ...
''.
Biography
He was born in
Nishapur a year earlier than
Ibn Jarir al-Tabari and outlived him by one year. In Nishapur, he studied under its scholars, including
Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh (died 238 AH), the
muhaddith
Hadith studies ( ar, علم الحديث ''ʻilm al-ḥadīth'' "science of hadith", also science of hadith, or science of hadith criticism or hadith criticism)
consists of several religious scholarly disciplines used by Muslim scholars in th ...
of
Khorasan at the time,
as well as with
al-Bukhari and
Muslim.
Works
Al-Hakim recorded that Ibn Khuzaymah wrote more than 140 books.
Little of what he wrote survives today:
* ''
Saheeh ibn Kuzaima: mukhtaṣar al-Mukhtaṣar min al-musnad al-Ṣaḥīḥ'' ( ar, صحيح بن خزيمة : مختصر المختصر من المسند الصحيح): Only one fourth of the book survived. It is a collection of
hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approva ...
s, covering prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, and the ''
zakāt
Zakat ( ar, زكاة; , "that which purifies", also Zakat al-mal , "zakat on wealth", or Zakah) is a form of almsgiving, often collected by the Muslim Ummah. It is considered in Islam as a religious obligation, and by Quranic ranking, is ...
'' tithe. Among the
''Sahih'' collections after ''
Sahih Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari ( ar, صحيح البخاري, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī), group=note is a ''hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī (810–870) around 846. Al ...
'' and ''
Sahih Muslim
Sahih Muslim ( ar, صحيح مسلم, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim), group=note is a 9th-century ''hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj (815–875). It is one of the most valued b ...
'', it is regarded highly along with ''
Sahih Ibn Hibbaan
''Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān'' (صحيح ابن حبان) is a collection of hadith by Sunni scholar Ibn Hibban. It has the distinction of being one of small number of collections intended by the respective authors to contain only authentic hadit ...
'' and ''
Sahih Abi 'Awana''. It has been edited by
Muhammad Mustafa Al-A'zami
Muhammad Mustafa Al-A'zami (1930 – 20 December 2017) was an Indian-born Saudi Arabian contemporary hadith scholar best known for his critical investigation of the theories of fellow Islamic scholars Ignác Goldziher, David Margoliouth, and ...
and published by ''al-Maktab al-Islami'' in
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
.
* ''Kitāb al-Tawḥīd wa-ithbāt ṣifāt al-Rabb ’azza wa-jall'' ( ar-at, کتاب التوحيد وإثبات صفات الرب عز وجل, lit=The Book of the Affirmation of Divine Unity and the Affirmation of the Attributes of the Lord) – Recently, an English translation of the work has been initiated which is being publish piecemeal on https://kitabaltawhidenglish.blogspot.com/.
* ''Sha’n al-du‘ā’ wa-tafsīr al-ad‘īyah al-ma’thūrah'' ( ar, شأن الدعاء وتفسير الأدعية المأثورة)
* ''Fāʼid al-Fāʼid'' ( ar, فوائد الفوائد لابن خزيمة)
See also
*
Asas al-Taqdis
Asās al-Taqdīs ( ar, أساس التقديس, lit=The Foundation of Declaring Allah's Transcendence), also known as Ta'sis al-Taqdis ( ar, تأسيس التقديس, lit=The Establishment of the Sacred) is an Islamic theological book, written b ...
References
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837 births
923 deaths
Hadith scholars
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Sunni Muslim scholars
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