The life of Imam Abu al-Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri an-Naysaburi (204–261 AH), compiler of Sahih Muslim — one of the Sahihayn, and second in authenticity only to Sahih Al-Bukhari.
| Publisher | Dar-us-Salam |
| Author | Salahuddin Ali Abdul Mawjood |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Pages | 239 |
| Size | 6x9x0.7" (15x22cm) |
| Format | Full Color |
| Weight (lbs) | 0.78 |
Born in Nishapur, Imam Muslim gave his life to the pursuit of authentic hadith. He traveled across the Islamic world and studied under many of the greatest scholars of his era — among them Imam Al-Bukhari, Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Yahya ibn Ma'in.
His relationship with Al-Bukhari is worth noting. He was his student and remained devoted to him, publicly and at cost to himself when Al-Bukhari came under attack in Nishapur.
Sahih Muslim is one of the two collections the Ummah has agreed to place above all others. Its particular strength is arrangement: where Al-Bukhari organized by legal chapter and split narrations across the work, Muslim gathered all the versions of a hadith in one place, with their variant wordings and chains together. For anyone studying how a narration was transmitted, that arrangement is invaluable, and it is why the two collections are used side by side rather than one instead of the other.
Knowledge does not transmit itself. It reaches us through particular people who paid a price to preserve it, and seeing how one of them actually lived changes how a reader treats what he inherited. These biographies cover not only scholarly contribution but the private side — manners, piety and worship — because those are the qualities that made the scholarship trustworthy.
Darussalam's Biography of the Imams series covers the scholars who preserved and transmitted this religion — one volume each, written to the same standard. Most are by Salahuddin Ali Abdul Mawjood. Also available:
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