Ibn Majah

Abu Abdillah Muhammad ibn Yazid ibn Majah (), commonly called Ibn Majah was a Persian, hadith scholar. His hadith collection Sunan ibn Majah is one of the six major hadith collections.
Biography.
Ibn Majah was born in Qazwin, the modern-day Iranian province of Qazvin, in 824 CE. Majah was the nickname of his father, and not that of his grandfather. Al-Dhahabi mentioned following of Ibn Majah's works: