- Ibn Maja
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| name = Abu `Abdallah Muhammad ibn Yazid Ibn Majah al-Rab`i al-Qazwini| title= Ibn Majah| birth = 824CE | death = 887| Maddhab =Shafi'i | school tradition= | Ethnicity =
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main_interests =hadith ,Tafsir andhistory | influences = | influenced = | works = "Sunan Ibn Majah ", "Kitaab at-Tafseer" and "Kitaab at-Taareekh"|Ibn Maja, full name Abu `Abdallah Muhammad ibn Yazid Ibn Majah al-Rab`i al-Qazwini, was a medieval scholar of
hadith (the sayings ofMuhammad ). He compiled the last ofSunni Islam 's six canonical hadith collections, "Sunan Ibn Majah ".Ibn Maja was born in
Qazwin in modern-dayIran ian province of Qazvin in 824 to a Persian family, clients ("mawla ") of theArab tribe of Rabi`a ibn Nizar. His patronymic "Mâjah" means "month" in ancient Persian (corresponding to modern "mâh"), and may have been his father's title, or his mother's or grandmother's name. At the age of 22, he left his hometown to travel theIslamic world ; among the areas he visited wereKufa ,Basra ,Egypt ,Sham (Syria),Baghdad ,Rayy ,Mecca ,Medina , andKhorasan . He died in 887After his travels, he wrote the "Sunan Ibn Majah", recording 4,341 hadiths, of which 3,002 are recorded by the other five canonical hadith collectors; of the 1,339 hadith unique to him, 428 are graded "sahih" (authentic), while the remainder are considered less certain. According to
Ibn Kathir , he also wrote a "tafsir " (commentary on theQur'an ) and a book on history, but neither survive. Other authors began to add him to the canonical five hadith collectors beginning in the 13th century, but his position remained controversial as late as the 18th century.Works
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Sunan Ibn Majah
* Kitaab at-Tafseer.
* Kitaab at-Taareekhources
* Suhaib Hasan Abdul Ghaffar, "Criticism of Hadith among Muslims with reference to Sunan Ibn Maja", Presidency of Islamic Research, IFTA and Propagation: Riyadh 1984 (1404 AH).
External links
* [http://www.theclearpath.com/viewtopic.php?t=71 Imaam Muhammad Ibn Yazeed Ibn Maajah (biography by www.theclearpath.com)]
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