Sunan Ibn Majah

By Ibn Majah

سنن ابن ماجه

The Sunan of Ibn Majah Muhammad ibn Yazid al-Qazwini (d. 273 AH): counted sixth of the six books by later scholars, noted for its renunciation and tribulation material and for reports absent from the two Sahihs; the standard print is Muhammad Fu'ad Abd al-Baqi's (Cairo, 1952–1953).

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The Sunan of Ibn Majah, Muhammad ibn Yazid al-Qazwini (d. 273 AH). For most later scholars it is the sixth of the Six Books. 1

It is distinguished by its hadiths on asceticism and tribulations, and by a chapter not found in the two Sahihs. Its best-known edition is that of Muhammad Fu'ad Abd al-Baqi (Cairo, 1952–1953 CE). 1

Structure and size

Sunnah.com gives Sunan Ibn Majah as 4,341 hadith in 37 books, and calls it the sixth of the six canonical collections 2.

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Ibn Majah
Part of
The Six Books

People and things also explored

Muwatta of Imam Malik· The Six Books· Jami' al-Tirmidhi· Sahih al-Bukhari· Sahih Muslim· Sunan Abi Dawud· Sunan al-Nasa'i· Ibn Majah

Sources

  1. Sunan Ibn Majah (Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi edition)
  2. Sunnah.com — hadith collections , ibnmajah
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