Sunan ibn Majah


Sunan Ibn Mājah is one of the six major Sunni hadith collections. The Sunan was authored by Ibn Mājah.

Description

It contains 4,341 ahadith in 32 books ' divided into 1,500 chapters '. Some 1,329 hadith are only found in it, and not in the other five canonical works. 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 Qazvin.

Views

Sunni Muslims 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 remarked that while Ibn Mājah's Sunan was well regarded in Ray, Iran, 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 Islamic world. Scholars such as al-Nawawi and Ibn Khaldun excluded Sunan Ibn Mājah from their lists of canonical Sunni hadith collections, while others replaced it with either the Muwatta Imam Malik or with the Sunan al-Darimi. It was not until Ibn al-Qaisarani's formal standardization of the Sunni hadith cannon into six books in the 11th century that Ibn Majah's collection was regarded the esteem granted to the five other books.

Contents

Editor, Muhammad Fu'ād 'Abd al-Bāqī's 1952–53 Cairo publication, in 2 volumes, provides the standard topical classification of the hadith Arabic text.
The book is divided into 37 volumes.

Commentaries

Arabic

  1. Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah by Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Niamah al-Ansari al-Andalusi.
  2. Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah by Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi.
  3. Al-Ilam bi Sunnatih alayh as-Salatu wa ’s-Salam Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah by Maghlatay ibn Qalij. Published by Dar Ibn Abbas in five volumes with tahqiq by Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Abi ’l-Aynayn.
  4. Ma Tamassu ilayhi al-Hajah min Sharh Ibn Majah by Ibn al-Mulaqqin. Published by Dar al-Muqtabis.
  5. Ihda ad-Dibajah bi-Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah by Al-Damiri.
  6. Al-Hawashi ala Sunan Ibn Majah by Sibt Ibn al-Ajami
  7. Misbah az-Zujajah ala Sunan Ibn Majah by Al-Suyuti. Published by Dar Ibn Hazm with tahqiq by Muhammad Shaib Sharif.
  8. Kifayat al-Hajah fi Sharh Ibn Majah by al-Sindi Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hadi. This work is a marginal commentary.
  9. Ma Tad’u ilayhi al-Hajah ala Sunan Ibn Majah by Shams ad-Din Abu ar-Rida Muhammad ibn Hasan az-Zubaidi ash-Shafii.
  10. Miftah al-Hajah bi Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah by Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Alawi al-Funjani. Published by Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah in four volumes with tahqiq by Abu Abd ar-Rahman Adil ibn Saad.
  11. Murshid Dhawi ’l-Hija wa ’l-Hajah ila Sunan Ibn Majah by Muhammad al-Amin ibn Abdillah al-Ithyubi al-Harari. Published by Dar al-Manhaj in twenty-six volumes, and it is regarded as the most comprehensive modern commentary on Sunan Ibn Majah.
  12. Al-Imam Ibn Majah wa Kitabuhu as-Sunan by Abdul Rasheed Nomani. Published by Dar as-Salam with tahqiq by Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda.

Urdu

  1. Sunan Ibn Majah Sharif by Qasim Amin. Published by Maktabat al-Ilm. Although this work is mainly a translation, it still includes concise commentary.
  2. Sunan Ibn Majah by 'Ata Allah Sajid. Published by I'tiqad Publishing House in five volumes with tahqiq by Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair 'Alizai.
  3. Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah by Muhammad Liyaqat 'Ali Ridwi. The translation is by Muhy ad-Din Jahangir. Published by Shabbir Brothers in six volumes.
  4. Misbah az-Zujajah Sharh Mushkilat Ibn Majah by As'ad Qasim Sumbhuli. Published by Maktabah Nu'maniyyah.