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 Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraha ...

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

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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 Nishapur or officially Romanized as Neyshabur ( fa, ;Or also "نیشاپور" which is closer to its original and historic meaning though it is less commonly used by modern native Persian speakers. In Persian poetry, the name of this city is wr ...

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

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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 ne ...

'' 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. A ...

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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'' and '' Sahih Abi 'Awana''. It has been edited by Muhammad Mustafa Al-A'zami and published by ''al-Maktab al-Islami'' in

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. * ''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)

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