Sunan Ibn Mājah (Arabic: سُنن ابن ماجه) is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadiths), collected by Ibn Mājah.
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- 1 Description
- 2 Views
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Description[edit][]
It contains over 4,000 aḥādīth in 32 books (kutub) divided into 1,500 chapters (abwāb). About 20 of the traditions it contains were later declared to be forged; such as those dealing with the merits of individuals, tribes or towns, including Ibn Mājah's home town of Qazwin.
Views[edit][]
Sunni regard this collection as sixth in strength of their Six major Hadith collections.[1] Nonetheless this position was not settled until the 14th century or later. Scholars such as al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277) and Ibn Khaldun (d. 808/1405) excluded the Sunan from the generally accepted books; others replaced it with either the Muwaṭṭaʾ of Imām Mālik or with the Sunan ad-Dārimī. It was not until Ibn al-Qaisarani's formal standardization of the Sunni cannon into six books that Ibn Majah's collection was regarded the esteem granted to the five other books.[2][3][4]