Sunan Ibn Majah is a Sihah Sitta hadith book. The book is authored by a Muslim scholar Ibn Majah. Like other authors of popular hadith books, Ibn Majah was also born in 9th century A.D. Exact year of his birth is 824 A.D. Ibn Majah spent most of his life years in writing. He got considerable respect as an Imam and scholar of hadith. Some of the literary works of Ibn Majah are the following.
1) Sunan Ibn Majah is his hadith collection book.
2) Kitab al-Tarikh is a historic book about Ravis of hadith.
3) Kitab al-Tafsir is his tafseer (exegesis) of Holy Quran.
Only Sunan Ibn Majah can be found now a days. Sunan is the last of six authentic hadith books. Some scholars and school of thought do not include Sunan Ibn Majah in Sihah Sitta. They include Mota Imam Malik in the collection of six. But Sunan Ibn Majah is mostly included due to its uniqueness. Hadiths of Mota Imam Malik can also be found in other books of Sihah Sitta. More information on Sihah Sitta can be found by exploring previous posts here.
The present version of Sunan Ibn Majah is consisted of three volumes. First volume contains 1844 ahadees. Second volume comprises 1276 ahadees. Third volume has 1222 ahadees. So, more than 4 thousand hadiths are there in Ibn Majah Shareef. These four thousand hadith are distributed among fifteen hundred chapters.
Sunan Ibn Majah Shareef
Author: Imam Ibn Majah
Format: pdf files in rar archive
Sunan Ibn e Maja can be obtained in pdf format from the post of Sihah Sittah.
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