Sunan Ibn Maja (English Translation) - Volume 4
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Sunan Ibn Mājah ( Arabic : سُنن ابن ماجه ) is one of the six major Sunni hadith collections ( Kutub al-Sittah ). The Sunan was authored by Ibn Mājah (AD 824- 887). 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 (Iran).
Sunni s regard this collection as sixth in terms of authenticity of their Six major Hadith collections .
Although Ibn Mājah related hadith from scholars across the eastern Islamic world, neither he nor his Sunan were well known outside of his native region of northwestern Iran until the 5th/11th century. Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī (d. 507/1113) remarked that while Ibn Mājah's Sunan was well regarded in Rayy, it was not widely known among the broader community of Muslim jurists outside of Iran. It was also Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir who first proposed a six-book canon of the most authentic Sunni hadith collections in his Shurūṭ al-aʾimma al-sitta, which included Ibn Mājah's Sunan alongside Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawud, Sunan Nasai, and Jami al-Tirmidhi. Nonetheless, consensus among Sunni scholars concerning this six-book canon, which included Ibn Mājah's Sunan, did not occur until the 7th/13th century, and even then this consensus was largely contained to the Sunni scholarly community in the eastern Islam