Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī

817–875

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Abū al-Ḥusayn ‘Asākir ad-Dīn Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Muslim ibn Ward ibn Kawshādh al-Qushayrī an-Naysābūrī, commonly known as Imam Muslim, was an Islamic scholar from Nishapur in early Khorasan, present-day Iran. He was a muhaddith, or scholar of hadith, and is best known for compiling the hadith collection known as Sahih Muslim. This collection is one of the six major hadith collections in Sunni Islam and is considered one of the two most authentic, alongside Sahih al-Bukhari. Muslim lived from after 815 until May 875 CE. He is also referred to as Muslim Nayshāpūrī in Persian.

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817