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Ibn Khuzaymah, Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Ishaq b. Khuzaymah al-Nishaburi
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[Biographical Notes in 'Reliance of the Traveller', Noah (Nuh) Ha Mim Keller, USA: Sunna Books, 1991 CE, Biography x168 (pg. 1056) ] Ibn Khuzayma (w40.5) is Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzayma, Abu Bakr al-Sulami, born in Nishapur, Persia, in 223/838. He was a Shafi`i scholar and mujtahid, the Imam of Nishapur in his time, a hadith specialist who travelled for Sacred Knowledge to Iraq, Syria, the Arabian Peninsula, and Egypt. He authored more than 140 works, among them his main contribution to the science of hadith, Mukhtasar al-Mukhtasar [The abridgement of "The abridgment"], also known as his Sahih. He died in Nishapur in 311/924 (ibid., 6.29; and Tabaqat al-Shafi`iyya al-kubra (y128), 3.109). The Ahlul Bayt DILP team does not necessarily agree with all of the statements and opinions expressed by the authors of these texts regarding their subjects. These are presented for the purposes of private research only. Presented by the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project team |