Part of The Six Imams, Authors of the Sunan (series completed)
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Biographies of the Imams who wrote the six books | Episode (6) | Imam Ibn Majah, may God have mercy on him
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
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O you who recite the words of the Prophet and clarify them, how beautiful is your voice when it calls to guidance for the sake of Allah.
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The biographies of the authors of the Six Books.
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Six biographies filled with beauty and majesty.
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Summarized with care.
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From the unique and magnificent book,
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Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' (Lives of Noble Figures),
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By Imam al-Dhahabi, may Allah have mercy on him.
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Prepared by Shaykh Muhammad al-Muhanna, may Allah preserve him.
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Imam Ibn Majah, may Allah have mercy on him,
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The great Hafiz,
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The authority and exegete,
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Abu 'Abd Allah,
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Muhammad ibn Yazid ibn Majah,
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Al-Qazwini,
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Author of the Sunan, the History, and the Tafsir.
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He was the Hafiz of Qazwin in his era.
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He was born in the year 209 AH.
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He heard hadiths from 'Ali ibn Muhammad
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Al-Tanafisi, the Hafiz,
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And he narrated extensively from him.
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He also heard from Jabarah ibn al-Mughallis,
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Who was among his earliest teachers,
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And from Mus'ab ibn 'Abd Allah
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Al-Zubayri,
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And Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah,
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And Hisham ibn 'Ammar,
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And Abu Hudhafah al-Sahmi,
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And Dawud ibn Rashid,
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And Abu Khaythamah,
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And 'Abd Allah ibn Dhakwan al-Muqri',
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And 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim Duhaym,
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And 'Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah,
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And a great multitude mentioned in his Sunan and his other works.
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Among those who narrated from him were Muhammad ibn 'Isa al-Abhari,
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And Abu al-Tayyib Ahmad ibn Rawh al-Baghdadi,
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And Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qattan,
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And Sulayman ibn Yazid al-Fami,
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And others.
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The Qadi Abu Ya'la al-Khalili said:
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His father, Yazid,
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Was known as Majah,
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And his clientage was to the tribe of Rabi'ah.
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Al-Khalili also said:
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Ibn Majah
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Was a great and trustworthy authority,
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Whose status is agreed upon,
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And whose narrations are used as evidence.
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He possessed deep knowledge of hadith and was a master of the craft.
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He traveled to the two Iraqs, Makkah, the Levant,
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Egypt, and Rayy to collect hadiths.
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Regarding Ibn Majah,
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It is said
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That he said: "I presented these Sunan to Abu Zur'ah al-Razi,
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He examined it,
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And said:
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'I suspect that if this falls into the hands of the people,
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These Jami' collections—or most of them—will be neglected.'"
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By "neglected Jami' collections," he meant
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The books of Sunnah,
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Implying that people would turn to this book and abandon the others.
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Then Abu Zur'ah said:
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"Perhaps there are not even thirty hadiths in it
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That have weakness in their chain of narration or something similar."
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I say:
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Ibn Majah was indeed
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A Hafiz, a critic, and a truthful man,
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Possessing vast knowledge.
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The only thing that lowered the rank of his Sunan
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Were the rejected (munkar) narrations found in the book,
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And a small number of fabricated ones.
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As for the statement of Abu Zur'ah, if it is authentic,
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He only meant by the thirty hadiths
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Those that are completely rejected and discarded.
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As for the hadiths that cannot be used as evidence,
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They are numerous;
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Perhaps there are around a thousand of them.
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Abu al-Hasan al-Qattan said:
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"In the Sunan,
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There are one thousand five hundred chapters,
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And the total number of hadiths it contains is four thousand."
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The Hafiz Muhammad ibn Tahir said:
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"I saw a work by Ibn Majah
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In the city of Qazwin,
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A history of the narrators and the regions up to his time."
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At the end of it, in the handwriting of his companion Ja'far ibn Idris, it is written:
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"Abu 'Abd Allah ibn Majah died
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On Monday,
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And was buried on Tuesday,
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With eight days remaining in Ramadan."
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His brother Abu Bakr prayed over him,
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And his two brothers took charge of his burial:
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Abu Bakr and Abu 'Abd Allah,
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Along with his son 'Abd Allah.
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I say:
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He died in Ramadan
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In the year 273 AH,
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And he lived for sixty-four years.
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Biographies of the authors of the Six Books...
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I welcomed you and listened to your rhythmic recitation,
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I was moved to tears at times, and at others, I smiled.
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You were comforted, then humility appeared upon you,
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Sometimes boasting of the Sunnah of Ahmad,
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Sometimes devout with a gentle soul.
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Read!
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I would be your ransom, and I wish that I—
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If only I could read with all the resonance of your voice.
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My veins throb for the hadith and its people,
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So open your Sahih collections and quench my thirst with the chains of narration (an'ana).
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With the "he said" and "he said," and the repetition of our traditions,
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And the eloquent, precise, and comprehensive words.
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For his words—peace be upon him—carry such majesty,
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And his speech holds authority over all other words.
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Upon them is a light that blossoms in tranquility,
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So it flows into my soul, which remains submissive to it.