MUSLIM IBN AL-HAJJAJ

in full Abu Al-husayn Muslim Ibn Al-hajjaj Al-qushayri born c. 817, , Nishapur, Iran died 875, Nasrabad scholar who was one of the chief authorities on the Hadith, accounts of the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad. Muslim traveled widely; his great work, the Sahih (The Genuine), is said to have been compiled from about 300,000 traditions, which he collected in Arabia, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. The Sahih has been unanimously acclaimed as authoritative and is one of the six canonical collections of Hadith. Muslim was careful to give a full account of the isnads (links in the chain of transmission) for each tradition and to record textual variations. The collection also includes a survey on early Islamic theology and a discussion on the Qur'an.