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Who is Ibn Hibban?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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Muhammad ibn Hibban al-Busti, whose kunya was Abu Hatim al-Tamimi, was one of the traveling imams and excellent authors. He was knowledgeable in medicine, astronomy, and various sciences. He authored "Al-Musnad Al-," "Al-Tarikh," "Al-Dhu'afa'," and many other books. He served as a judge in Samarqand for a long period, then as a judge in Nasa, and he passed away in Bust in Shawwal of the year 354 AH, at the age of eighty. He was a reliable, well-established Imam and a definitive authority, and one of the vessels of knowledge in , Fiqh, language, admonition, and other fields. Some critics mentioned that his Sahih is more authentic than Sunan Ibn Majah.

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