Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī [2] ( Arabic: ابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الربعي القزويني; (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a medieval scholar of hadith of Persian [3] origin. He compiled the last of Sunni Islam's six canonical hadith collections, Sunan Ibn Mājah. [4] [5] Biography [ edit ] Qazwin (red), where Ibn Mājah was born and died, on a map of modern Iran Sunnis regard this collection as sixth in terms of authenticity of their Six major Hadith collections. [4] Although Ibn Mājah related hadith from scholars across the eastern Islamic world, neither he nor his Sunan were well known outside of his native region of northwestern Iran until the 5th/11th century. [5] Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī (died 507/1113) remarked that while Ibn Mājah's Sunan was well regarded in Ray, Iran, it was not widely known among the broader community of Muslim jurists outside of Iran. [6] It was also Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir who first proposed a six-book canon of the most authentic Sunni hadith collections in his Shurūṭ al-aʾimma al-sitta, which included Ibn Mājah's Sunan alongside Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawud, Sunan Nasai, and Jami al-Tirmidhi. [1] Nonetheless, consensus among Sunni scholars concerning this six-book canon, which included Ibn Mājah's Sunan, did not occur until the 7th/13th century, and even then this consensus was largely contained to the Sunni scholarly community in the eastern Islamic world. [7] Scholars such as al-Nawawi (died 676/1277) and Ibn Khaldun (died 808/1405) excluded Sunan Ibn Mājah from their lists of canonical Sunni hadith collections, while others replaced it with either the Muwatta Imam Malik or with the Sunan al-Darimi. It was not until Ibn al-Qaisarani's formal standardization of the Sunni hadith cannon into six books in the 11th century that Ibn Majah's collection was regarded the esteem granted to the five other books. The reason for the addition of Ibn Majah's Sunan is that it contains many Hadiths which do not figure in the other five, whereas all the Hadiths in the Muwatta' figure in the other Sahih books. [4] Significance [ edit ] Sahih Muslim, collected by Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (died 261 AH, 875 CE), includes 7,500 ahadith (including repetitions, around 3,033 without repetitions) [9] [10] Ibn Mājah did not write an introduction to his book, so the conditions for the aḥādīth in his collection are not explicit. However, there are indications that he was concerned with collecting as many aḥādīth as possible on Fiqh issues. Sunan Ibn Mājah contains a larger number of aḥādīth than any of the other five books without repetition. It also includes a greater number of weak aḥādīth than the other five. Ibn Mājah was enthusiastic about finding evidences for Fiqh issues. His purpose may have been to collect as many aḥādīth, and find the chain of narrations for the aḥādīth that were the basis of rulings on Fiqh issues of the time, regardless of their authenticity or chain of narrators.

Sunan ibn Majah, collected by Ibn Majah (died 273 AH, 887 CE), includes 4,341 ahadith (including repetitions) [15] He said: "Abu Sa'eed said: 'By Allah, we did not think that man would be anyone other than 'Umar bin Khattab, until he passed away. - Goldziher, Ignác (1889–1890). Muslim Studies. Vol.2. Halle. p.240. ISBN 0-202-30778-6. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Jaami' at Timizi is a Hadith collection by Abu 'Eesa Muhammad ibn 'Eesa at Tirmidhi. It is known for

Imam Ibn-e-Majah was also considered to be extra-ordinary due to his ability to memorize everything. By the time of compilation, he knew many hadiths by heart and used to narrate them to his students. Introduction: Sunan Ibn Mājah ( Arabic: سُنن ابن ماجه) is one of the six major Sunni hadith collections ( Kutub al-Sittah). The Sunan was authored by Ibn Mājah (born 824 CE, died 887CE). Saheeh al-Bukhari is a collection of Hadees by Muhammad ibn Isma'el al-Bukhari. It is considered as the Muhammad b. 'Isa al-Tirmidhi, the author of the well-known as Sunan al-Tirmidhi, who was a student of Bukhari and died in 279/892–3.

a b c d al-Kattani, Muhammah ibn Ja`far (2007). Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Kattani (ed.). al-Risalah al-Mustatrafah (in Arabic) (seventhed.). Beirut: Dar al-Bashair al-Islamiyyah. p.12. The first two, commonly referred to as the Two Sahihs as an indication of their authenticity, contain approximately seven thousand hadiths altogether if repetitions are not counted, according to Ibn Hajar. α [16] Authors [ edit ]Sunan al-Sughra, collected by al-Nasa'i (died 303 AH, 915 CE), includes 5,270 ahadith (including repetitions) [11] author's description (commentary) after each Hadees which clearly highlights the benefits and juristic opinions within. Suhaib Hasan Abdul Ghaffar, Criticism of Hadith among Muslims with reference to Sunan Ibn Maja, Presidency of Islamic Research, IFTA and Propagation: Riyadh 1984. ISBN 0-907461-56-5.