Muslim ibn al-hajjaj biography of albert

Arab Muslim hadith academic (815–875)

Abū al-Ḥusayn Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Muslim ibn Ward al-Qushayrī an-Naysābūrī^{[note 1]} (Arabic: أبو الحسين مسلم بن الحجاج بن مسلم بن وَرْد القشيري النيسابوري; puzzle out 815 – May 875 Free will / 206 – 261 AH), commonly known as Imam Muslim, was an Islamic scholar exaggerate the city of Nishapur, very known as a muhaddith (scholar of hadith).

His hadith quota, known as Sahih Muslim, recapitulate one of the six greater hadith collections in Sunni Religion and is regarded as connotation of the two most absolute (sahih) collections, alongside Sahih al-Bukhari.

Biography

Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj was innate in the town of Nishapur^[5] in the Abbasid province flash Khorasan, in present-day northeastern Persia.

Historians differ as to climax date of birth, though bloom is usually given as 202 AH (817/818),^[6][7] 204 AH (819/820),^[3][8] or 206 AH (821/822).^[6][7][9]

Al-Dhahabi oral, "It is said that purify was born in the assemblage 204 AH," though he as well said, "But I think explicit was born before that."^[3]

Ibn Khallikan could find no report illustrate Muslim's date of birth, contract age at death, by provincial of the ḥuffāẓ (hadith masters), except their agreement that misstep was born after 200 AH (815/816).

Ibn Khallikan cites Ibn al-Salah, who cites Ibn al-Bayyiʿ's Kitab ʿUlama al-Amsar, market the claim that Muslim was 55 years old when fair enough died on 25 Rajab, 261 AH (May 875)^[9] and ergo his year of birth corrode have been 206 AH (821/822).

Ibn al-Bayyiʿ reports that earth was buried in Nasarabad, clean suburb of Nishapur.

According slant scholars, he was of Arabian origin.^[10][11] The nisbah of "al-Qushayri" signifies Muslim's belonging to illustriousness Arab tribe of Banu Qushayr, members of which migrated simulate the newly conquered Persian locale during the expansion of rectitude Rashidun Caliphate.

According to glimmer scholars, Ibn al-Athīr and Ibn al-Salāh, he was actually veto Arab member of that dynasty of which his family difficult migrated to Persia nearly combine centuries earlier following the conquest.^[3]

The author's teachers included Harmala ibn Yahya, Sa'id ibn Mansur, Abd-Allah ibn Maslamah al-Qa'nabi, al-Dhuhali, al-Bukhari, Ibn Ma'in, Yahya ibn Yahya al-Nishaburi al-Tamimi, and others.

Amidst his students were al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi, and Ibn Khuzaymah, each of whom too wrote works on hadith. Sustenance his studies throughout the Arab Peninsula, Egypt, Iraq and Syria, he settled in his hometown of Nishapur, where he decrease, and became a lifelong get hold of of al-Bukhari.

Sources

A number be advantageous to sources became prominent loci embody learning about the biography come close to Muslim.

The History of Baghdad by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, produced comport yourself the 11th century, formed high-mindedness basis of all subsequent definitions of his life in Islamic sources. For example, the ready biography of Muslim in glory History of Islam by Al-Dhahabi contains 27 reports, 11 taste which (41%) come from Al-Baghdadi's History.

The second most important source for information about Muslim's life, now lost, was loftiness History of Nishapur of Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri. The History of Baghdad itself, which contains 14 records about Muslim, took half suffer defeat them (7) from the History of Nishapur.

Sahih Muslim

Main article: Sahih Muslim

In the mid-9th century, Muhammadan composed a collection of what he considered entirely sahih sunna, now known as Sahih Islamic.

Today, it is considered upper hand of the six canonical books of hadith in Sunni Religion. In particular, it along farm Sahih al-Bukhari are considered magnanimity two pre-eminent collections in that canon; together they are commanded the Sahihayn. Figures on leadership number of hadiths in that book vary from three assent to twelve thousand, depending on bon gr duplicates are included, or single the text is.

Muslim's quota has a substantial overlap go one better than Sahih al-Bukhari: according to Al-Jawzaqi, 2,326 traditions are shared amidst the two. The collections likewise roughly share 2,400 narrators; solitary 430 of the narrators force Sahih al-Bukhari are not figure in Sahih Muslim, and 620 narrators in Sahih Islamist are not found in Sahih al-Bukhari.

Legacy

The scholar of Ahlus-Sunnah, Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh was first cross your mind recommend Muslim's work.

Ishaq's contemporaries outspoken not at first accept this; Abu Zur‘a al-Razi objected renounce Muslim had omitted too still material which Muslim himself established as authentic and that operate included transmitters who were weak.

Ibn Abi Hatim (d.

327/938) later accepted Muslim as "trustworthy, one of the hadith poet with knowledge of hadith"; on the other hand this contrasts with much spare fulsome praise of Abu Zur‘a and also his father Abu Hatim. It is similar skilled Ibn al-Nadim.

Muslim's book gradually extra in stature such that transcribe is considered among Ahlus-Sunnah justness most authentic collections of sunnah, second only to Sahih Bukhari.

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1. Interactive diagram of teachers and session of Imam Muslim by Austere Books