What is Sunan ibn Majah?
{{Hadith}} '''Sunan Ibn Majah''' ({{lang-ar|سُنَنِ ابْنِ مَاجَهْ}}) is one of the six major Sunni hadith collections ([[Kutub al-Sittah]]). The Sunan was authored by [[Ibn Majah]].<ref>al-Dhahabi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad (1957). al-Mu`allimi, ed. Tadhkirat al-Huffaz (in Arabic). 2. Hyderabad: Da`irat al-Ma`arif al-`Uthmaniyyah. p. 636.</ref> It contains over 4,000 [[hadith]] in 32 books (kutub). [[Sunni]]s consider this collection as sixth in strength of their six major Hadith collections.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.se/~m9783/n/vih_e.html|title=Various Issues About Hadiths|website=www.abc.se}}</ref><ref>Brown, Jonathan A. C. ‘The canonization of Ibn Mâjah: authenticity vs. utility in the formation of the Sunni ḥadîth canon’. Pages 169-81 in Écriture de l’histoire et processus de canonisation dans les premiers siècles de l’islam. Directed by Antoine Borrut. Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée 129. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2011.</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Hadith]] [[Category:Hadith Books]] {{religion-stub}}