Sunan ibn Maja

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Most famous
Sunni six major collections (Al-Sihah al-Sittah): Sahih al-Bukhari Sahih Muslim Sunan an-Nasa'i al-Sughra Sunan Abi Dawood Sunan al-Tirmidhi Sunan Ibn Maja Shi'a Twelver collections: Nahj al-Balagha "The Four Books" (Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah) Kitab al-Kafi of Kulainy Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq Tahdhib al-Ahkam by Shaikh Tusi al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi Ibadi collections: al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani
Sunni collections
Al-Muwatta Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal — 780-855 Sunan al-Darimi — 868 Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah — 923 Sahih Ibn Hibbaan — 965 Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain — 1014 Mawdu'at al-Kubra— 1128-1217 Riyadh as-Saaliheen — 1233 - 1278 Mishkat al-Masabih - 1340 Talkhis al-Mustadrak — 1274-1348 Majma al-Zawa'id — 1335-1405 Bulugh al-Maram — 1372-1449 Kanz al-Ummal — 1500th
Shi'a Twelver collections
The book of Sulaym ibn Qays — 600th Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya — 678-713 Wasael ush-Shia — 1600s Bihar al-Anwar — 1600s Haqq al-Yaqeen — 1600s Ain Al-Hayat — 1600s Sharh Usul al-Kafi — ?-1081
Shi'a Ismaili collections
Qalam-e-Mowla Daim al-Islam
Mu'tazili collections
Nahj with comments — ?-1258

Sunan Ibn Maja (Arabic: سُنن ابن ماجه‎) is one of the Sunni Six Major Hadith collections, collected by Ibn Maja. It contains over 4000 traditions in 32 books divided into 1500 chapters. Many 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 Maja's home town of Qazwin.

[edit] Views

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 Muwatta of Imam Malik or with the Sunan of al-Darimi.