Ibn Khuzayma Explained

Religion:	Islam
Ibn Khuzaymah
Birth Date:	Safar 223 AH Nishapur
Death Date:	2 Dhu al-Qi'dah 311 AH/15 February 924
Maddhab:	Shafi'i^[1] ^[2]
School Tradition:	Athari^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
Main Interests:	Hadith Fiqh
Works:	Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah
Influences:	Ishaq ibn Rahwayh Muhammad al-Bukhari Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzaymah (Arabic: أبو بكر محمد بن إسحاق بن خزيمة, 837 CE/223 AH – 924 CE/311 AH) was a prominent Muslim Muhaddith and Shafi'i jurist, 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 (died 238 AH), 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 Kuzaima: mukhtaṣar al-Mukhtaṣar min al-musnad al-Ṣaḥīḥ (Arabic: صحيح بن خزيمة : مختصر المختصر من المسند الصحيح): Only one fourth of the book survived. 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 (Arabic: کتاب التوحيد وإثبات صفات الرب عز وجل|lit=The Book of the Affirmation of Divine Unity and the Affirmation of the Attributes of the Lord) – 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 (Arabic: شأن الدعاء وتفسير الأدعية المأثورة)
• Fawāʼid al-Fawāʼid (Arabic: فوائد الفوائد لابن خزيمة)

See also

• Asas al-Taqdis

Notes and References

1. Book: Brown, Jonathan A.C. . Jonathan A.C. Brown . Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy . 2014 . . 978-1-78074-420-9 . 303 . registration .
2. Book: Brown, Jonathan A.C. . Jonathan A.C. Brown . Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Foundations of Islam series). 2009. . 978-1-85168-663-6. 32–3.
3. Book: Melchert, Christopher . The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E . Brill Publishers . 1997 . 90-04-10952-8 . Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands . 154 . Chapter 7: Al-Khallal and the Classical Hanbali school.
4. Book: Imam adh-Dhahabi . Siyar 'Alam an-Nabula . registration .
5. Book: Fakhr id-Deen ar-Razi . Tafsir Fakhr id-Deen ar-Razi.