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Famous
Personalities of the Global Islamic Movement Throughout History
Al-Muslim
(lived c. 206-261 AH/c.821-875 CE), Muslim Author of the
second most widely recognized collection of Hadith in
Sunni Islam, "Sahih Muslim", "Muslim's authentic
(collection)".
Born in Nishapur (Persia) and traces his origins to the
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah of the Arab tribe of Quraish.
Among the author's teachers were included al-Zubair b.
Harb, Sa'id b. Mansur, 'Abd b. Humaid, al-Dhuhali, al-Bukhari,
Ibn Ma'in, Ibn Abi Shaiba, and others. Among his
students were al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi, and
Ibn Khuzaima, each of which wrote works on hadith too.
Estimates on how many hadiths are in his books vary
widely from 12,000 to 3,033, depending on whether they
remove the duplicates, consider only the text (matn) or
the isnad, the chain of narrators, as well. The book is
said to share 2326 hadiths with Bukhari's Sahih.
The introduction of his book is a methodology on hadith,
and how to differentiate between authentic and
non-authentic narrations.
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