Sunan Ibn Majah (Arabic: سُنن ابن ماجه‎) is one of the Sunni Six Major Hadith collections, collected by Ibn Majah.

[edit] Description

It contains over 4,000 hadith in 32 books divided into 1,500 chapters. 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 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.

[edit] References

1. ^ Gibril, Haddad (April 4, 2003), Various Issues About Hadiths, living ISLAM – Islamic Tradition, http://www.abc.se/~m9783/n/vih_e.html 

[edit] See also

• List of Sunni books

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