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Also known as Ibn Moja

Persian Hadith compiler (824–886)

Key facts

Title
Ibn Mājah
Born
c. 824 CE, Qazvin , Persia, Abbasid Caliphate , (present-day Iran )
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 and Kitāb at-Tārīkh
Religion
Islam
Denomination
Sunni

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Muhammad
Gender
male
Place of birth
Qazvin
Place of death
Qazvin
Occupation
muhaddith
Languages spoken
Persian
Religion
Sunni Islam
Notable work
Sunan ibn Majah
Student of
Ibn Abī Shaiba
Field of work
science of hadith
Image
Ibn Majah.png
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date of birth
0824-00-00
name in native language
محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه
honorific prefix
muhaddith
Commons category
Ibn Majah
date of death
0886-01-01
honorific suffix
rahimahullah
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Encyclopedic overview

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī (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 origin. He compiled the last of Sunni Islam's six canonical hadith collections, Sunan Ibn Mājah.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ibn Majah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.