Imam Muslim

Muslim is considered second only to Al-Bukhari in the\r\nscience of the methodology of Hadeeth. He started the study of Hadeeth\r\nat an early age and travelled to 'Iraq, Hijaz, Ash-Sham and Egypt and\r\nstudied under the scholars of Hadeeth at that time like Al-Bukhari,\r\nAhmad bin Hanbal and Ibn Abee Shaiba. He also taught the famous Hadeeth\r\nscholars like At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Abu Haatim. Muslim compiled the\r\nHadeeth book Al-Musnad As-Sahih, which became known as Sahih Muslim.\r\nThis book, which is considered by the Muslim 'Ulama as the second most\r\nauthentic Hadeeth book after Al-Bukhari, contains 9,200 Hadeeth. Imam\r\nMuslim died at his birthplace in Rajab 261 H. Saheeh al-Muslim has been\r\ntranslated to English. \r\nImam Muslim lived a couple of centuries after the Prophet's death \r\nand worked extremely hard to collect his ahadith. Each report \r\nin his collection was checked for compatibility with the \r\nQur'an, and the veracity of the chain of reporters had to be \r\npainstakingly established. Muslim's collection is recognized \r\nby the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world to be one of \r\nthe most authentic collections of the Sunnah of the Prophet \r\n(pbuh). Muslim (full name Abul Husain Muslim bin al-Hajjaj \r\nal-Nisapuri) was born in 202 A. H. and died in 261 A. H. He \r\ntravelled widely to gather his collection of ahadith, \r\nincluding to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Egypt. Out of \r\n300,000 ahadith which he evaluated, only 4,000 approximately \r\n(including multiple hadith in a single one i. e. multiple \r\nquotations) were extracted for inclusion into his collection \r\nbased on stringent acceptance criteria. Muslim was a student \r\nof Imam Bukhari.