Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

Muslim ibn al - Hajjaj, whose full name Abu ' l -Husayn Muslim b. al - Hajjaj b. Muslim al - Quschairi al - Naisaburi, Arabic مسلم بن الحجاج النيسابوري, DMG Muslim ibn al - Ḥaǧǧāǧ to - Naysābūrī (* 817 or 821 in Naisabur; † 875 ) is the author of the most important collection of hadiths in addition to the collection of Al- Bukhari. However, in the North Arabian region, this collection is the latter often preferred. In the majority, it contains the same traditions as that of Bukhari.

Life

Since his youth, Muslim traveled widely, including through Iraq, the Hijaz, Syria and Egypt, in search of Hadith. He studied with renowned scholars in Egypt, Syria, Arabia and Iraq, among other things, Ahmad ibn Hanbal in in Harmala, a student of ash- Shafii and Ibn Rāhwayh. He is in his own words from three hundred thousand hadiths, which he himself had collected, making the selection of his work.

Work

The hadith collection of Muslim Arabic is called al - Jami ʿ الجامع الصحيح as- saheeh, collection of authentic traditions ', short or sahih sahih muslim. She gets along with the " Sahih " of Bukhari at the top of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni. Among the commentators of Muslims work is to be mentioned especially the scholar Al-Nawawi, who performed in the 13th century, the introductory remarks in more detail at the beginning of each chapter.