Al-Tirmidhi
Tirmidhī (ترمذی), also transliterated as Tirmizi, full name Abū ˤĪsā Muħammad ibn ˤĪsā 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 Muhammad)
Biography
He wrote the Sunan al-Tirmidhi, one of the six canonical hadith compilations used in Sunni Islam. He was born at (and would die) Bugh, a suburb of Termez (Arabic Tirmidh), 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.
Works
Tirmidhī wrote nine books, of which, after the Jami, al-Ilal is 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.