Here’s the English translation:


*Imam Ibn Majah*


Most hadith scholars consider the _Sunan_ of Ibn Majah [209 AH / 824 CE – 273 AH / 886 CE] superior to the work of al-Darimi, and include it among the ‘Six Authentic’ collections.


Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Yazid [commonly known as Ibn Majah, which denotes his father’s or possibly his grandfather’s title] was born in Qazvin. Visiting the important centers of learning in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, he studied under the great hadith scholars of his time and compiled several works in the field of hadith, the most important of which is his _Sunan_.


In this work, the author compiled four thousand hadiths, distributed across 32 books and 1,500 chapters. It is said that after completing the book, Ibn Majah presented it to Abu Zur‘ah for critique, who was regarded as the most skilled hadith critic of the time. 


Abu Zur‘ah liked the general structure of the book and said that he hoped it would surpass the hadith texts prevalent at the time. He also said that the number of weak narrations in the book was not large. Despite this praise, it turns out that the book does indeed contain many fabricated narrations. 


Shaykh Abd al-Haqq of Delhi says that the narrations in it concerning Qazvin [the Iranian city with which Ibn Majah was associated] are fabricated.

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