Sunan Ibn Majah ( Arabic: سنن ابن ماجه ) is a collection of hadiths written by Ibn Majah and one of the six most authoritative Sunni collections of hadiths ( Qutub al-sitta ).
| Sunan Ibn Maja | |
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| Arab. سنن ابن ماجه | |
| Sunan Ibn Maja | |
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| The authors | Ibn Maja |
| Date of writing | 8th century |
| Original language | Arab |
| Describes | early history of islam |
| Theme | biography |
| Genre | historical chronicle |
| Volume | more than 4000 hadiths |
| Content | biography of the prophet Muhammad |
| Characters | Muhammad , Sahaba , etc. |
| Primary sources | oral retelling of contemporaries |
| Confirmed by | Quran, Sahih Muslim |
Contents
The collection contains more than 4000 hadiths , 32 books (qutub) and 1500 chapters (abwab) are divided. It presents not only reliable hadiths , but also “ weak ones ” [1] . Most Sunni theologians put this collection in sixth place among the six most authoritative collections of hadiths (Qutub al-Sitt) [2] . Some theologians ( al-Navawi and Ibn Khaldun ) excluded “Sunan” from the list of reputable ones, while others replaced it with either Muwatt Imam Malik or Sunan ad-Darimi . For the first time, he was officially included in Qutub al-Sitt in the XI century by the Islamic theologian Ibn al-Qaisarani [3] [4] [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Ali-zade A. A. Ibn Maja // Islamic Encyclopedic Dictionary . - M .: Ansar , 2007 .-- 400 p. - (The Golden Fund of Islamic Thought). - ISBN 5-98443-025-8 .
- ↑ Gibril, Haddad (April 4, 2003), Various Issues About Hadiths , living ISLAM - Islamic Tradition , < http://www.abc.se/~m9783/n/vih_e.html >
- ↑ Ignác Goldziher , Muslim Studies , vol. 2, pg. 240. Halle , 1889-1890. ISBN 0-202-30778-6
- ↑ Scott C. Lucas, Constructive Critics, Ḥadīth Literature, and the Articulation of Sunnī Islam , pg. 106. Leiden : Brill Publishers , 2004.
- ↑ Ibn Khallikan 's Biographical Dictionary, translated by William McGuckin de Slane . Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Sold by Institut de France and Royal Library of Belgium . Vol. 3, pg. five.