Ibn Majah

ابن ماجه

c. 887 CE · 273 AH

The muhaddith of Qazvin, author of the Sunan counted by later scholars as the sixth of the six books; he travelled for hadith to Iraq, the Hijaz, al-Sham and Egypt, and his collection is noted for renunciation and tribulation reports not found in the two Sahihs.

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Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Overview

Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Yazid al-Qazwini, hadith scholar of Qazvin, author of the Sunan. Most later scholars count it the sixth of the six books. He died in 273 AH. 1

The journey and the book

He travelled in search of hadith to Iraq, the Hijaz, Syria and Egypt. His book is distinguished by hadiths on asceticism and tribulations, and by material he alone transmits, not found in the two Sahihs. 1

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Sunan Ibn Majah

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The Six Books· Sunan Ibn Majah· The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity

Sources

  1. Sunan Ibn Majah (Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi edition)
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The Six Books

The 'six books' of later convention: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud, Jami' al-Tirmidhi, Sunan al-Nasa'i and Sunan Ibn Majah — the principal chapter-arranged hadith collections that became the community's widest hadith reference from the fifth century; some lists substitute the Muwatta or the Musnad of Ahmad for Ibn Majah.