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Muslim ibn al-?ajj?j ?
Muslim ibn al-?ajj?j's name in Islamic calligraphy
Title	Im?m Muslim
Personal
Born	after 815 Nishapur, Abbasid Caliphate
Died	May 875 Nasarabad, Abbasid Caliphate
Resting place	Nasarabad
Religion	Islam
Ethnicity	Arab
Era	Islamic Golden Age (Abbasid era)
Region	Abbasid Caliphate
Denomination	Sunni
Main interest(s)	Hadith
Notable work(s)	Sahih Muslim
Occupation	Islamic scholar, Muhaddith
Muslim leader
Influenced by Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh,[1]Muhammad al-Bukhari[2]

Ab? al-?usayn 'As?kir ad-D?n Muslim ibn al-?ajj?j ibn Muslim ibn Ward ibn Kawsh?dh al-Qushayr? an-Nays?b?r?^{[note 1]} (Arabic: ? ? ? ?‎; after 815 - May 875 CE / 206 - 261 AH) or Muslim Naysh?p?r? (Persian: ? ‎), commonly known as Imam Muslim, was an Islamic scholar, particularly known as a muhaddith (scholar of hadith). His hadith collection, known as Sahih Muslim, is one of the six major hadith collections in Sunni Islam and is regarded as one of the two most authentic (sahih) collections, alongside Sahih al-Bukhari.

Biography

Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj was born in the town of Nishapur in the Abbasid province of Khorasan, in present-day northeastern Iran. Historians differ as to his date of birth, though it is usually given as 202 AH (817/818),^[5][6] 204 AH (819/820),^[3][7] or 206 AH (821/822).^[5][6][8]

Adh-Dhahabi said, "It is said that he was born in the year 204 AH," though he also said, "But I think he was born before that."^[3]

Ibn Khallikan could find no report of Muslim's date of birth, or age at death, by any of the ?uff (hadith masters), except their agreement that he was born after 200 AH (815/816). Ibn Khallikan cites Ibn al-Salah, who cites Ibn al-Bayyi?'s Kitab ?Ulama al-Amsar, in the claim that Muslim was 55 years old when he died on 25 Rajab, 261 AH (May 875)^[8] and therefore his year of birth must have been 206 AH (821/822).

Ibn al-Bayyi? reports that he was buried in Nasarabad, a suburb of Nishapur.

According to scholars he was of Arab or Persian origin^[9][10] The nisbah of "al-Qushayri" signifies Muslim's belonging to the Arab tribe of Banu Qushayr, members of which migrated to the newly conquered Persian territory during the expansion of the Rashidun Caliphate.^[7] A scholar named Shams al-D?n al-Dhahab? introduced the idea that he may have been a mawla of Persian descent, attributed to the Qushayr tribe by way of wala' (alliance). An ancestor of Muslim may have been a freed slave of a Qushayri, or may have accepted Islam at the hands of a Qushayri. According to two other scholars, Ibn al-Ath?r and Ibn al-Sal?h, he was actually an Arab member of that tribe of which his family had migrated to Iran nearly two centuries earlier following the conquest.^[3]

Estimates on the number of hadiths in his books vary from 3,033 to 12,000, depending on whether duplicates are included, or only the text (isnad) is. His Sahih ("authentic") is said to share about 2000 hadiths with Bukhari's Sahih.^[11]

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. Among his students were al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi, and Ibn Khuzaymah, each of whom also wrote works on hadith. After his studies throughout the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Iraq and Syria, he settled in his hometown of Nishapur, where he met, and became a lifelong friend of al-Bukhari.

Legacy

The Sunni scholar Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh was first to recommend Muslim's work.^[12]

Ishaq's contemporaries did not at first accept this. Abu Zur'a al-Razi objected that Muslim had omitted too much material which Muslim himself recognised as authentic; and that he included transmitters who were weak.^[13]

Ibn Abi Hatim (d. 327/938) later accepted Muslim as "trustworthy, one of the hadith masters with knowledge of hadith"; but this contrasts with much more fulsome praise of Abu Zur'a and also his father Abu Hatim. It is similar with Ibn al-Nadim.^[14]

Muslim's book gradually increased in stature such that it is considered among Sunni Muslims the most authentic collections of hadith, second only to Sahih Bukhari.

Works

• Sahih Muslim: his collection of authentic hadith

Notes

References

External links

• Biodata at MuslimScholars.info
• Biography at Sunnah.com
• Short Bio of Imam Muslim
• Biography of Imam Muslim
• English translation of Sahih Muslim
• Interactive Family tree of Imam Muslim by Happy Books

1. Interactive diagram of teachers and students of Imam Muslim by Happy Books