Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
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| Iranian scholar Medieval era |
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|---|---|
| Name: | Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj |
| Birth: | 202 AH [1] or 206 AH/c. 821[citation needed] |
| Death: | 261 AH /c. 875 [2] |
| School/tradition: | Sunni |
| Main interests: | Hadith |
| Influences: | Ahmad Ibn Hanbal Muhammad al-Bukhari [3] |
Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nisaburi (Arabic: أبو الحسين مسلم بن الحجاج القشيري النيسابوري) (lived c. 206-261 AH/c.821-875 CE), Muslim Author of the second most widely recognized collection of Hadith in Sunni Islam, "Sahih Muslim", "Muslim's authentic (collection)". He is largely known as simply "Al-Muslim."
Born in the town of Nishapur in Persia and traces his origins to the Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah[citation needed] of the Arab tribe of Quraish.
Among the author's teachers were included al-Zubair b. Harb, Sa'id b. Mansur, 'Abd b. Humaid, al-Dhuhali, al-Bukhari, Ibn Ma'in, Ibn Abi Shaiba, and others. Among his students were al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi, and Ibn Khuzaima, each of which wrote works on hadith too. After many studies throughout Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Syria, he settled down in his hometown of Nishapur where he first met Bukhari, with whom he would have a friendship with until his death.
He died in 875 CE in Nishapur, where he was also buried.
His book is considered among the most authentic collections of hadith, second only to al-Bukhari's work (a minority of scholars consider Muslim's work more authentic).
Estimates on how many hadiths are in his books vary widely from 12,000 to 3,033, depending on whether they remove the duplicates, consider only the text (matn) or the isnad, the chain of narrators, as well. The book is said to share 2326 hadiths with Bukhari's Sahih.
His book had lots of later scholars write commentaries on, the most famous are the one by Nawawi of Damascus, and al-Qadi 'Iyad of Maghreb.
The introduction of his book is a methodology on hadith, and how to differentiate between authentic and non-authentic narrations. It was translated into English by G.H.A. Juynboll as: "Muslim's introduction to his Sahih," Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, (1984)
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- Sahih Muslim
- al-Tamyiz
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