Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī | |
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| Title | Ibn Mājah |
| Personal life | |
| Born | c. 824 CE |
| Died | c. 887 or 889 CE Qazvin, Persia, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith,Fiqh |
| Notable work(s) | Sunan Ibn Mājah,Kitāb at-Tafsīr andKitāb at-Tārīkh |
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| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī[1] (Arabic:ابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الربعي القزويني; (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known asIbn Mājah, was amedieval scholar ofhadith ofPersian[2] origin. He compiled the last ofSunni Islam'ssix canonical hadith collections,Sunan Ibn Mājah.[3][4]
Ibn Mājah was born inQazwin, the modern-dayIranian province of Qazvin, in 824 CE/209 AH[3] to a family who were members (mawla) of the Rabīʻah tribe.[5]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. Thehāʼ at the end is un-voweled whether in stopping upon its pronunciation or continuing because it a non-Arabic name.[5]
He left his hometown to travel theIslamic world visitingIraq,Makkah, theLevant andEgypt. He studied underIbn Abi Shaybah (through whom came over a quarter ofal-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."[3]
According toal-Dhahabī, Ibn Mājah died on approximately February 19, 887 CE/with eight days remaining of the month ofRamadan, 273 AH,[3] or, according to al-Kattānī, in either 887/273 or 889/275.[5] He died inQazwin.[5]
What he compiled/didAl-Dhahabī mentioned the following of Ibn Mājah's works:[3]
The last two, though praised by scholars, have beenlost.[6]
TheSunan consists of 1,500 chapters and about 4,000hadith.[3] Upon completing it, he read it toAbu 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."[3]
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