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Ibn Majah

824 - 886

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Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī (Arabic: ابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الربعي القزويني; (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a medieval scholar of hadith of Persian origin. He compiled the last of Sunni Islam's six canonical hadith collections, Sunan Ibn Mājah. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn Majah is the 576th most popular religious figure (down from 500th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Iran (up from 67th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

Ibn Majah is most famous for his work of hadith, which is a collection of sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ibn Majah ranks 576 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope Severinus, Pope Stephen V, Paul the Deacon, Meritaten, Nicodemus, and Musa al-Kadhim. After him are Kane Tanaka, Francis of Paola, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Hasan al-Askari, Saint Rosalia, and Marcel Lefebvre.

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Among people born in 824, Ibn Majah ranks 2. Before him is Al-Tirmidhi.  Among people deceased in 886, Ibn Majah ranks 2. Before him is Basil I. After him are Abu Maʿshar, Muhammad I of Córdoba, Joseph the Hymnographer, Bernard Plantapilosa, García Jiménez of Pamplona, and Adalbert I, Margrave of Tuscany.

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    Al-Tirmidhi

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    824 - 892

    HPI: 76.62

    Rank: 1

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    Ibn Majah

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    824 - 886

    HPI: 72.73

    Rank: 2

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ibn Majah ranks 64 out of 631. Before him are Öljaitü (1280), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Moshe Katsav (1945), Masoud Barzani (1946), Abbas Kiarostami (1940), and Cyaxares (-700). After him are Achaemenes (-800), Shapur II (309), Cyrus I (-690), Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932), Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940), and Tekuder (1247).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Ibn Majah ranks 9. Before him are Bahá'u'lláh (1817), Esther (-600), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), and Báb (1819). After him are `Abdu'l-Bahá (1844), Mordecai (null), Sasan (200), Anastasius of Persia (550), Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad (985), and Safi-ad-din Ardabili (1252).

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