The word · History

مُسْلِمُ بْنُ الحَجَّاج

Imam Muslim

The compiler of the second Sahih, a student and close friend of al-Bukhari.

Also written · Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj · Imam Muslim ibn Hajjaj · Muslim bin Hajjaj · Imam Muslim an-Nisaburi · Muslim al-Naysaburi · Imam Muslim ra · Muslim ibn Hajaj · Imam Musliman · Muslim al-Qushayri

The meaning

What Imam Muslim means in Islam

He was from Nishapur and died in 261, a few years after his teacher. He held that two narrators living in the same period with the possibility of meeting is enough, without proof of an actual meeting, which is the main methodological difference between the two books. He gathered every chain of a hadith in one place instead of scattering them, which makes his book easier to study. His introduction is a short treatise on hadith criticism and is still read on its own.

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