In the name of Allah most
gracious most merciful
Assalaamu alaykum wa
rahmatuallahi wa barakatuhu
Imam Ibn Majah was born in the
city of Qazvin in the northern Persian province of Dailam. After gaining
ahadith from the many great religious scholars of his city, he travelled to
seek knowledge at the young age of 21. Imam Ibn Majah is said to have visited
Basrah, Kufah, Baghdad, the Hijaz, Makkah, Syria and Egypt to hear and gather
ahadith.
Amongst his teachers were
Jabbara ibn al Mughlis, Ibrahim ibn al-Munzar, Hisham ibn Umar and more Abu
Bakr ibn Shaibah.
Ibn Khallikan writes that Imam
ibn Majah held the position of an Imam in the subject of hadith.
Abu al-Ali Khalili says he was
a great scholar of Qur’anic exegesis, ahadith and history.
Adh Dhahabi stated that he was
a hafiz and warehouse of Prophetic knowledge.
Imam ibn Majah is known to
have authored 3 books, popularly known Sunan ibn Majah, at-Tafsir and
at-Tarikh.
Imam Ibn Majah departed from
this world during the blessed month of Ramadan 273 A.H. in Qazvin, the city of
his birth.
Allah knows best