Al-Tirmidhi
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| Hadith scholar |
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| Name: | Abū Īsā Muhammad ibn Īsā as-Sulamī at-Tirmidhī |
| Title: | Tirmidhī |
| Birth: | 824 CE (209 AH) |
| Death: | 892 CE (13 Rajab 279 AH) |
| Maddhab: | Sunni |
| School tradition: | Shafi'i |
| Main interests: | hadith |
| Works: | Sunan al-Tirmidhi or Jami at-Tirmidhi |
Tirmidhī (ترمذی), also transliterated as Tirmizi, full name Abū Īsā Muhammad ibn Īsā ibn Surat ibn Mūsā ibn ad-Dahhāk as-Sulamī at-Tirmidhī (824-892, ie 209 AH - 13 Rajab 279 AH) was a medieval collector of hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad)
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[edit] Biography
He wrote the Sunan al-Tirmidhi, one of the six canonical hadith compilations used in Sunni Islam. He was born (and would die) in Bugh, a suburb of Termez (Arabic Tirmidh) Uzbekistan, to a family of the widespread Banū Sulaym tribe. Starting at the age of twenty, he travelled widely, to Kufa, Basra and the Hijaz, seeking out knowledge from, among others, Qutaiba ibn Said, Bukhari, Imam Muslim and Abu Dawud.
Tirmidhī was blind in the last two years of his life. Tirmidhi is buried in Sherobod, 60 kilometers north of Termez, Uzbekistan. He is locally know as Iso At Termizi or Termiz Ota (Father of Termez City).
[edit] Works
Tirmidhī wrote nine books, of which, after the Jami, al-'Ilal and "Shamail" are best-known; only four of his works survive. He played a major part in giving the formerly vague terminology used in classifying hadith according to their reliability a more precise set of definitions.
