Ibn Khuzayma


Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzaymah al-Nishapuri was a prominent Persian Muslim muhaddith scholar and Shafi'i jurist. He is best known for his hadith collection, Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah.

Biography

He was born in Nishapur a year earlier than Ibn Jarir al-Tabari and outlived him by one year. In Nishapur, he studied under its scholars, including Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh, the muhaddith of Khorasan at the time, as well as with al-Bukhari and Muslim.

Works

Al-Hakim recorded that Ibn Khuzaymah wrote more than 140 books. Little of what he wrote survives today:Saheeh ibn Khuzaymah: mukhtaṣar al-Mukhtaṣar min al-musnad al-Ṣaḥīḥ : It is a collection of hadiths, covering prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, and the zakāt tithe. Among the Sahih collections after Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, it is regarded highly along with Sahih Ibn Hibbaan and Sahih Abi 'Awana. It has been edited by Muhammad Mustafa Al-A'zami and published by al-Maktab al-Islami in Beirut.Kitāb al-Tawḥīd wa-ithbāt ṣifāt al-Rabb ’azza wa-jall – Recently, an English translation of the work has been initiated which is being publish piecemeal on https://kitabaltawhidenglish.blogspot.com/. Sha’n al-du‘ā’ wa-tafsīr al-ad‘īyah al-ma’thūrah Fawāʼid al-Fawāʼid