Ibn Majah
Persian Hadith compiler
About Ibn Majah
Lived 824 – 886 (aged 61–62). Ibn Majah was an Arab muhaddith and islamicist.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī (; (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a medieval scholar of hadith of Persian origin. He compiled the last of Sunni Islam's six canonical hadith collections, Sunan Ibn Mājah.
Biography
Ibn Mājah was born in Qazwin, the modern-day Iranian province of Qazvin, in 824 CE/209 AH
What he compiled/did Al-Dhahabī mentioned the following of Ibn Mājah's works:
The Sunan
The Sunan consists of 1,500 chapters and about 4,000 hadith. Upon completing it, he read it to Abu Zur’a al-Razi, a hadith authority of his time, who commented, "I think that were people to get their hands on this, the other collections, or most of them, would be rendered obsolete."
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Contemporaries
People whose lives overlapped Ibn Majah's
Frequently asked questions
Who was Ibn Majah?
Persian Hadith compiler (824–886)
When was Ibn Majah born?
Ibn Majah was born in 824 in Qazvin.
When did Ibn Majah die?
Ibn Majah died in 886 in Qazvin.
What was Ibn Majah's occupation?
Ibn Majah was a muhaddith and islamicist.
What nationality was Ibn Majah?
Ibn Majah was Arab.
Sources & further reading
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Ibn Majah. https://biography.guide/ibn-majah/
MLA: "Ibn Majah." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/ibn-majah/.
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