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Ibn Maja
Ibn Maja, full name Abu `Abdallah Muhammad ibn Yazid Ibn Maja al-Rab`i al-Qazwini, was a medieval scholar of hadith (the sayings of Muhammad). He compiled the last of Sunni Islam's six canonical hadith collections, Sunan Ibn Maja.Ibn Maja was born in Qazwin in modern-day Iranian province of Qazvin in 824 to a Persian family, clients (mawla) of the Arab tribe of Rabi`a ibn Nizar. His patronymic "Mâja" means "month" in ancient Persian (corresponding to modern mâh), and may have been his father's title, or his mother's or grandmother's name. At the age of 22, he left his hometown to travel the Islamic world; among the areas he visited were Kufa, Basra, Egypt, Sham (Syria), Baghdad, Rayy, Mecca, Medina, and Khorasan. He died in 887
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