Name:
مسلم بن الحجاج بن مسلم القشيرى ، أبو الحسين النيسابورى الحافظ ( صاحب
" الصحيح " )
Muslim
bin al-Hajjaaj bin Muslim bin Qushayri, Abu al-Husayn al-Haafidh (The Author of
Al-Saheeh)
Birth: 204
H
Tabaqah:
Death: 261
H
Narrated by:
Tirmidhi
Teachers:
Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal, Ishaaq bin Rahwayh, Abu Khaythamah Zuhayr bin Harb,
Abdullah bin Abdur Rahmaan ad-Daari, Abdullah bin Maslamah bin Qa’nab al-Qa’nabi,
Ali bin al-Ja’d, Amr bin Ali al-Fallaas, Qutaybah bin Sa’eed, Yahya bin Ma’een,
Yahya bin Yahya al-Neesaaboori, Abu Bakr bin Abi Shaybah, Abu Zur’ah ar-Raazi
and others.
Students:
Imaam Tirmidhi, Ibraaheem bin Muhammad bin Sufyaan al-Faqeeh, Saalih bin
Muhammad al-Baghdaadi, Abdur Rahmaan bin Abi Haatim ar-Raazi, Muhammad bin
Ishaaq bin Khuzaymah, Muhammad bin Ishaaq ath-Thaqafi al-Siraaj, Abu Awaanah
al-Asfaraaini and others
Status:
Thiqah Imaam Haafidh Faqeeh
Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh wat Ta’deel:
1- Abu Muhammad Abdur Rahmaan bin Abi Haatim ar-Raazi said: “He is Thiqah Haafidh, he had understanding of the
hadeeth, I asked my Father about him so he said, he is Sadooq”
[Kitaab
al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: 8/182, 183; Taareekh Dimashq by Ibn Asaakir: 61/66, Chain
Hasan]
2- Abu Ahmed Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab al-Faraa’ said about Imaam
Muslim that: “He was among the Scholars of
People, and the preservers of knowledge, I only know good about him, he was
pious; May Allaah have mercy upon him and us”
[Taareekh
Dimashq: 61/67, Chain Strong]
3- Imaam Ahmed bin Salamah bin Abdullah al-Neesaaboori said: “I saw that Abu Zur’ah and Abu Haatim both used to give
preference to Muslim bin al-Hajjaaj in the Ma’rifah of Hadeeth over the other
teachers of their era.”
[Taareekh Dimashq:
61/67, Chain Saheeh]
4- Imaam Ishaaq bin Rahwayh looked at Imaam Muslim and said: “A Complete Man”
[Taareekh
Dimashq: 61/67, Chain Hasan]
5- Khateeb al-Baghdaadi said: “He
was one of the Imaams of the preservers of Hadeeth…”
[Taareekh
Baghdaad: 13/100]
6- Imaam Abu Ali al-Neesaaboori said: “There
is no book more authentic under the canopy of sky than the book of Muslim (according
to me)”
[Taareekh
al-Islaam by Dhahabi: 25/41, Chain Saheeh]
7- Haafidh Ibn Asaakir said: “He was
an Imaam of High rank, and a distinguished author”
[Taareekh
Dimashq: 61/64]
8- Haafidh Ibn al-Jawzee said: “He
was one of the Major Scholars and preservers of Hadeeth”
[Al-Muntazim:
12/171]
9- Haafidh Dhahabi said: “He is a
Major Imaam al-Haafidh al-Mujawwid al-Hujjah al-Saadiq”
[Siyar A’laam
al-Nabula: 12/557]
10-
Haafidh Ibn Hajar
al-Asqalaani said: “He is Thiqah, Haafidh Imaam,
Author, Aalim of Fiqh”
[Taqreeb
at-Tahdheeb: 6623]
Note: There is a unanimous
consensus over the Imaamate and Adaalah of Imaam Muslim.
Books:
Saheeh Muslim
Kitaab al-Kunaa
Kitaab al-Munfaridaat
These books are published and a
part of Kitaab al-Tamiyeez is also published. Besides these, Imaam Muslim also
has many other books.
Benefits:
Ahmed bin Salamah al-Neesaaboori
narrated that a gathering was organized for Imaam Muslim bin al-Hajjaaj then a
hadeeth was presented to him, which he did not know, so he went back to his home
and lit up the lamp. He told his households not to disturb him in his room; he
was told that we just received a gift of dates. He said, bring it to me, so the
dates were brought to him; then he started searching for the hadeeth and kept
eating the dates one by one. When the dawn broke, the dates had finished and he
found the hadeeth
[Taareekh Baghdaad: 13/103;
Taareekh Dimashq: 61/70, 71; Al-Muntazim by Ibn al-Jawzee: 12/172]
Its chain contains the narrator “Muhammad
bin Ali bin Ahmed al-Maqri al-Mu’addal” who is Majhool. And if he is meant
to be “Qaadhi Abu al-Alaa al-Waasiti” then he is Da’eef, see: Monthly
al-Hadeeth (# 7 P. 16)
Therefore, this chain is Da’eef
Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin
Abdullah al-Haakim al-Neesaaboori has also narrated it with the same chain
that: A Thiqah person from our companions narrated to us that Muslim died
because of eating these dates.
[Taareekh Baghdaad: 13/103; Taareekh
Dimashq: 61/71; Al-Muntazim: 12/172]
The chain of this narration is
Da’eef due to two reasons:
First: The ta’ayyun and
Tawtheeq of Muhammad bin Ali al-Maqri is not known
Second: The Thiqah (?)
person narrating from Haakim is unknown.
Therefore, this narration is not
proven
Note: Imaam Muslim was an
Aalim of Fiqh as explained by Ibn Hajar in al-Taqreeb [6623] and it is not
proven from any authentic proof that he was a Muqallid. Haafidh Ibn Taymiyyah
said:
“Bukhaari
and Abu Dawood were Imaams and Mujtahid (Mutlaq) of Fiqh. As for Imaam Muslim,
Tirmidhi, Nasaa’ee, Ibn Maajah, Ibn Khuzaymah, Abu Ya’la, al-Bazzaar and others
then they were on the Madhab of Ahl ul-Hadeeth, they did not do Taqleed of any
particular Scholar, nor were they Mujtahid Mutlaq”
[Majmoo Fataawa: 20/40]
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