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.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
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
Connections
- Authored
- Sunan Ibn Majah
People and things also explored
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
- Sunan Ibn Majah (Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi edition)
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