Muslim b. al-Hajjaj
Muslim. Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nisaburi (204 A.H. - 261 (or 268?) A.H/ 875).
Author of the second most recognized collection of Hadith in Sunni Islam. Born in Nishapur and traces his origins to the Arab tribe of Qushair.
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, etc. Among his students were included al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Abu Hatim al-Razi, and Ibn Khuzaima, each of which wrote works on hadith too.
His book is considered all authentic narrations, only second to al-Bukhari's work.
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 as well. The book is said to share 2326 hadiths with Bukhari's Sahih.
His book had lots of later scholars write commentaries on, the most famous are al-Nawawi of Damascus, and al-Qadi 'Iyad of Maghreb.
The introduction of his book deals with what is authentic and what is not, and was translated into English by G.H.A. Juynboll as: "Muslim's introduction to his Sahih," Translated by Juynboll, G.H.A. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, (1984)
Muslim also wrote another book called al-Tamyiz.
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