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Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

مسلم بن الحجاج

Abbasid era · 815–875 CE

Compiler of Sahih Muslim, one of the six canonical hadith collections relied upon across the Muslim world.

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Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, a contemporary and student of Al-Bukhari, compiled Sahih Muslim, one of the six canonical hadith collections and, alongside Sahih al-Bukhari, one of the two most trusted sources of hadith in Sunni Islam. His careful methodology for verifying narrators and transmission chains remains foundational to the study of Islamic tradition.