Abà « ÿAbd AllÃÂh Muḥammad ibn Yazëd Ibn MÃÂjah al-Rabÿë al-Qazwënë (; (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known as Ibn MÃÂjah, was a medieval scholar of hadith of Persian origin. He compiled the last of Sunni Islam's six canonical hadith collections, Sunan Ibn MÃÂjah.
Ibn MÃÂjah was born in Qazwin, the modern-day Iranian province of Qazvin, in 824 CE/209 AH to a family who were members (mawla) of the Rabëûah tribe. MÃÂjah was the nickname of his father, and not that of his grandfather nor was it his mother's name, contrary to those claiming this. The hÃÂü at the end is un-voweled whether in stopping upon its pronunciation or continuing because it a non-Arabic name.
He left his hometown to travel the Islamic world visiting Iraq, Makkah, the Levant and Egypt. He studied under Ibn Abi Shaybah (through whom came over a quarter of al-Sunan), Muḥammad ibn ûAbdillÃÂh ibn Numayr, JubÃÂrah ibn al-Mughallis, IbrÃÂhëm ibn al-Mundhir al-ḤizÃÂmë, ûAbdullÃÂh ibn MuûÃÂwiyah, HishÃÂm ibn ûAmmÃÂr, Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ, DÃÂwà «d ibn Rashëd and others from their era. Abà « Yaûlàal-Khalëlë praised Ibn MÃÂjah as "reliable (thiqah), prominent, agreed upon, a religious authority, possessing knowledge and the capability to memorize."
According to al-Dhahabë, Ibn MÃÂjah died on approximately February 19, 887 CE/with eight days remaining of the month of Ramadan, 273 AH, or, according to al-KattÃÂnë, in either 887/273 or 889/275. He died in Qazwin.
What he compiled/did Al-Dhahabë mentioned the following of Ibn MÃÂjah's works:
The last two, though praised by scholars, have been lost.
The Sunan consists of 1,500 chapters and about 4,000 hadith. Upon completing it, he read it to Abu ZurâÂÂa al-Razi, a hadith authority of his time, who commented, "I think that were people to get their hands on this, the other collections, or most of them, would be rendered obsolete."