Al-Tirmidhi

Muhammad ibn Isa al-Tirmidhi (Arabic: محمد بن عيسى الترمذي, romanized: Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī; 824 – 9 October 892 CE / 209–279 AH), commonly known as Imam al-Tirmidhi or Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī, was a Muslim scholar and hadith collector from Termez in historical Greater Khorasan, in present-day Uzbekistan. He is principally known as the compiler of al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ, more commonly called Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī, one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam.

Al-Tirmidhi's Jāmiʿ, sometimes also designated a Ṣaḥīḥ, contains traditions concerning Islamic law as well as substantial material on religion and theology. In compiling it, he paid particular attention both to the reliability of the isnād, or chain of transmission, and to the content of individual traditions. Consequently, the collection is shorter and less repetitive than the corresponding collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. He also wrote the Shamāʾil al-Muḥammadiyya, commonly known as Shamāʾil al-Tirmidhī, a collection of hadith concerning the person and character of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Al-Tirmidhi was also well versed in Arabic grammar and preferred the grammatical school of Kufa to that of Basra, in part because the Kufan tradition preserved Arabic poetry as a primary linguistic source. Very little is otherwise known about his life, except that he was either born blind or became blind later in life.

Notable works: Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Shama'il Muhammadiyah, Al-`Ilal Al-Kubra, Khatm al-Awliya'

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