Sunan Ibn Mājah (Arabic:سُنَن ٱبْن مَاجَه) is one of the six majorSunnihadith collections (Kutub al-Sittah). TheSunan was authored byIbn Mājah (born 824 CE, died 887CE).
It contains 4,341ahadith[1] in 32 books(kutub) divided into 1,500 chapters(abwāb). Some 1,329 hadith are only found in it, and not in the other five canonical works.[1] About 20 of the traditions it contains were later declared to be forged; such as those dealing with the merits of individuals, tribes or towns, including Ibn Mājah's home town ofQazvin.[2]
Sunni Muslims regard this collection as sixth in terms of authenticity of theirsix major hadith collections.[3] Although Ibn Mājah related hadith from scholars across the eastern Islamic world, neither he nor hisSunan were well known outside of his native region of northwestern Iran until the 5th/11th century.[4] Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī (died 507/1113) remarked that while Ibn Mājah'sSunan was well regarded inRay, Iran, it was not widely known among the broader community of Muslim jurists outside of Iran.[5] It was also Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir who first proposed a six-book canon of the most authentic Sunni hadith collections in hisShurūṭ al-aʾimma al-sitta, which included Ibn Mājah'sSunan alongsideSahih Bukhari,Sahih Muslim,Sunan Abu Dawud,Sunan Nasai, andJami al-Tirmidhi.[1] Nonetheless, consensus among Sunni scholars concerning this six-book canon, which included Ibn Mājah'sSunan, 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.[6] Scholars such asal-Nawawi (died 676/1277) andIbn Khaldun (died 808/1405) excludedSunan Ibn Mājah from their lists of canonical Sunni hadith collections, while others replaced it with either theMuwatta Imam Malik or with theSunan al-Darimi. It was not untilIbn 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.
Editor,Muhammad Fu'ād 'Abd al-Bāqī's 1952–53 Cairo publication, in 2 volumes, provides the standard topical classification of the hadithArabic text.The book is divided into 37[7] volumes.
Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah by Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Niamah al-Ansari al-Andalusi (d. 567 AH).
Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah by Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (d. 629 AH).
Al-Ilam bi Sunnatih alayh as-Salatu wa ’s-Salam Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah byMaghlatay ibn Qalij (d. 762 AH). Published by Dar Ibn Abbas in five volumes with tahqiq by Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Abi ’l-Aynayn.
Ma Tamassu ilayhi al-Hajah min Sharh Ibn Majah byIbn al-Mulaqqin (d. 804 AH). Published by Dar al-Muqtabis.
Ihda ad-Dibajah bi-Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah byAl-Damiri (d. 808 AH).
Al-Hawashi ala Sunan Ibn Majah by Sibt Ibn al-Ajami
Misbah az-Zujajah ala Sunan Ibn Majah byAl-Suyuti (d. 911 AH). Published by Dar Ibn Hazm with tahqiq by Muhammad Shaib Sharif.
Kifayat al-Hajah fi Sharh Ibn Majah by al-Sindi Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hadi (d. 1138 AH). This work is a marginal commentary (hashiyah).
Ma Tad’u ilayhi al-Hajah ala Sunan Ibn Majah by Shams ad-Din Abu ar-Rida Muhammad ibn Hasan az-Zubaidi ash-Shafii.
Miftah al-Hajah bi Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah by Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Alawi al-Funjani (d. 1382 AH). Published by Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah in four volumes with tahqiq by Abu Abd ar-Rahman Adil ibn Saad.
Murshid Dhawi ’l-Hija wa ’l-Hajah ila Sunan Ibn Majah by Muhammad al-Amin ibn Abdillah al-Ithyubi al-Harari. Published by Dar al-Manhaj in twenty-six volumes, and it is regarded as the most comprehensive modern commentary onSunan Ibn Majah.[8]
^abcKamali, Mohammad Hashim (2005).A Textbook of Hadith Studies: Authenticity, Compilation, Classification and Criticism of Hadith. The Islamic Foundation. p. 40.
^Kamali, Mohammad Hashim (2005).A Textbook of Hadith Studies: Authenticity, Compilation, Classification and Criticism of Hadith. The Islamic Foundation. pp. 40–41.
^Gibril, Haddad (4 April 2003)."Various Issues About Hadiths". living ISLAM – Islamic Tradition.Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved12 March 2006.
^Robson, James (1958). "The Transmission of Ibn Mājah's 'Sunan'".Journal of Semitic Studies.3 (2): 139.doi:10.1093/jss/3.2.129.
^Brown, Jonathan (2009). "The Canonization of Ibn Mājah: Authenticity vs. Utility in the Formation of the Sunni Ḥadīth Canon".Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée.129: 175.
^Goldziher, Ignaz (1971).Muslim Studies, Volume II. Aldine Publishing Company. pp. 241–44.
