Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī ( ar, ابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الربعي القزويني; (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a

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scholar of

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of Persian origin. He compiled the last of

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's six canonical hadith collections, '' Sunan Ibn Mājah''. Ludwig W. Adamec (2009), ''Historical Dictionary of Islam'', p.139. Scarecrow Press. .

Biography

Ibn Mājah was born in

Qazwin Qazvin (; fa, قزوین, , also Romanized as ''Qazvīn'', ''Qazwin'', ''Kazvin'', ''Kasvin'', ''Caspin'', ''Casbin'', ''Casbeen'', or ''Ghazvin'') is the largest city and capital of the Province of Qazvin in Iran. Qazvin was a capital of the ...

, the modern-day

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

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, Makkah, the

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and

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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-ʿAbasī 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 Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was an Islamic historia ...

, 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

. 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 ''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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