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HARUN YAHYA

works of al-Bukhari and Muslim. When he completed his own
works, other people researching the hadiths made use of the
works of Abu Dawud. He was appreciated by the Islamic
ulama on many matters and pointed out as a scholar acting
with his knowledge.
From a total of 500,000 hadiths, he included 4,800 in his
work known as the Sunan Abu Dawud. In selecting hadiths, he
gave pride of place to those concerning rulings and matters of
legality. His works have also received widespread acceptance
among researchers from different schools.

Imam al-Nasa’i
Imam al-Nasa’i was born in Khorasan in 225 AH. He traveled
through the centers of Islamic learning and received instruc-
tion on hadiths from a great many scholars. His works have
survived down to the present day and are still used as refer-
ence books all over the world by Muslims and non-Muslim
studiers of the Islamic traditions.
On his arrival in Damascus from Egypt he was subjected to
pressure from the Umayyad administration and was martyred
as the result of this horrid torture. His tomb is said to lie
between the hills of Safa and Marwah, although this is not an
established fact by any means.
His work al-Mujtaba is considered a more delicate and intri-
cate collection than others on the subject of the hadiths; it is
the third volume in the al-Kutub as-Sitta.

Ibn Majah
Ibn Majah was born in Qazwin in 209 AH. Like other schol-
ars of hadith, he traveled to Khorasan, Basra, Makkah,

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