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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