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IBN AL-IjAJJAJ, the See also:Imam, the author of one of the two books of See also:Mahommedan tradition called See also:Sahib, " See also:sound," was See also:born at See also:Nishapur at some uncertain date after A.D. 815 and died there in 875. Like al-Bukhari (q.v.), of whom he was a See also:close and faithful friend, he gave himself to the See also:collecting, sifting and arranging of traditions, travelling for the purpose as far as See also:Egypt. It is See also:plain that his sympathies were with the traditionalist school or opposed to that which sought to build up the See also:system of See also:canon See also:law on a speculative basis (see MAHOMMEDAN LAW). But though he was a student and friend of Ahmad ibn Ilanbal (q.v.) he did not go in traditionalism to the length of some, and he defended al-Bukhara when the latter was driven from Nishapur for refusing to admit that the utterance (lafz) of the See also:Koran by See also:man was as uncreated as the Koran itself (see MAHOMMEDAN See also:RELIGION; and See also:Patton's Ahmad ibn Hanbal, 32 sqq.). His See also:great collection of traditions is second in popularity only to that of al-Bukhari, and is commonly regarded as more accurate and reliable in details, especially names. His See also:object was more to See also:weed out illegitimate accretions than to furnish a traditional basis for a system of law. Therefore, though he arranged his material according to such a system, he did not add guiding rubrics, and he regularly brought together in one See also:place the different parallel versions of the same tradition. His See also:book is thus historically more useful, but legally less suggestive. His biographers give almost no details as to his See also:life, and its See also:early See also:part was probably very obscure. One gives a See also:list of as many as twenty See also:works, but only his Saitih seems to have reached us. See further, de Slane's trans(. of lbn Khallikan, iii.

348 sqq, and of Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomenes, ii. 47o, 475; See also:

Goldziher, Muhammedanische Studien, i 245 sqq., 255 sq ; Brockelmann, Geschichte der arab. Litt., i. 76o seq.; See also:Macdonald, Development of Muslim See also:Theology, 8o, 147 seq.; Dhahabi Tadhkira (edit. of See also:Hyderabad), ii. 165 sqq. (D. B.

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