Sunan ibn Majah
Books of Hadith Kutub Al-Sittah
("The Six Books")
- Sahih Bukhari صحيح البخاري
- Sahih Muslim صحيح مسلم
- Al-Sunan Al-Sughra السنن الصغرى
- Sunan Abu Dawood سنن أبي داود
- Sunan al-Tirmidhi جامع الترمذي
- Sunan ibn Maja سُنن ابن ماجه
Others with Period (CE)
- Muwatta Imam Malik 8th–9th cent.
- Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal 780–855
- Sunan Al-Darimi 868
- Shama'il Muhammadiyah (Shamaail Tirmidhi) 9th century
- Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 923
- Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān 965
- Al-Mustadrak a. Al-Ṣaḥīḥaīn 11th century
- Al-Mawdū'āt Al-Kubrā 1128–1217
- Rīaḍ As-Ṣāliḥīn 1233–1278
- Mishkat Al-Masabih 1340
- Talkhis Al-Mustadrak 1274–1348
- Majma Al-Zawa'id 1335–1405
- Bulugh Al-Maram 1372–1449
- Kanz al-Ummal 16th century
- Zujajat al-Masabih 19th century
- Muntakhab Ahadith 20th century
Sunan Ibn Majah ( سُنن ابن ماجه)
Sunan Ibn Mājah ( سُنن
ابن ماجه) is one of the six major hadith
collections (Kutub al-Sittah).
The Sunan was compiled by Ibn
Mājah.
Outline
It contains over 4,000 Ahadith in 32 books (kutub) divided into 1,500 chapters (abwāb). 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 of Qazwin. Upon completing it, he read
it to Abū Zurʻah, 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.
Views
Sunni regard this collection as sixth in strength of their Six major Hadith
collections. Nonetheless this position was not settled until the 14th century
or later. Scholars such as al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277) and Ibn Khaldun (d.
808/1405) excluded the Sunan from the generally accepted books; others replaced
it with either the Muwaṭṭaʾ of Imām Mālik or with the Sunan ad-Dārimī. It was
not until Ibn al-Qaisarani's formal standardization of the Sunni cannon into
six books that Ibn Majah's collection was regarded the esteem granted to the
five other books.
Biography
Abū ʻAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah
al-Rabʻī al-Qazwīnī ( ابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد
بن ماجه الربعي القزويني; fl. 9th century CE) commonly
known as Ibn Mājah, was a medieval scholar of hadith. He compiled the last of Sunni Islam's six
canonical hadith collections, Sunan
Ibn Mājah
Ibn Mājah was born in Qazwin, the modern-day Iranian province of Qazvin, in 824 CE/209 AH to
a family who were clients of the Rabīʻah tribe. 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.
He left his hometown to travel the Islamic world visiting Iraq, Makkah, the Levant and Egypt. He studied under Abū Bakr ibn Abī
Shaybah (through whom came over a quarter of al-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."
According to al-Dhahabī, Ibn Mājah died on approximately February 19, 887
CE/with eight days remaining of the month of Ramadan, 273 AH, or, according to
al-Kattānī, in either 887/273 or 889/275 He died in Qazvin
Ibn Mājah's other works:
- Sunan Ibn Mājah: one of the six canonical collections of hadith
- Kitāb al-Tafsīr: a book of Qur'an exegesis
- Kitāb al-Tārīkh: a book of history or, more likely, a listing of hadith transmitters
