= He died in 275 AH. His works include the Sunan, in which he collected 4,800 hadiths selected from some 500,000. In a special chapter at the end of his Sunan—entitled “Kitab al-Sunnah”—he refuted the Jahmiyya with hadiths that invalidate their doctrine. This Sunan was later explained, abridged, and refined by scholars such as al-Khattabi, al-Mundhiri, and Ibn al-Qayyim. See: Fuʾād Sezgin, History of Arab Heritage: Quranic Sciences and Hadith, vol. 1/1, pp. 290, 292. See also: Dhikr al-Huffāẓ by al-Dhahabī, vol. 2, pp. 591–593. And: Tārīkh Baghdād by al-Baghdādī, vol. 9, pp. 55–59. And: Wafayāt al-Aʿyān by Ibn Khallikān, vol. 2, pp. 404–405. And: al-Tahdhīb by Ibn ʿAsākir, vol. 6, pp. 246–248. (1) He is Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿAlī ibn Sinān ibn Baḥr ibn Dīnār Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasaʾī (215–303 AH). His works include Kitāb al-Sunan al-Kubrā and Kitāb al-Naʿūt—the latter, cited by the Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him) among these Sunan, comprises 56 chapters on the names and attributes of Allah. He also composed a manuscript of al-Sunan, edited by the Department of Hadith and Its Sciences at the College of Usūl al-Dīn. See: Al-Kashf ʿan Abwāb Marājiʿ Tuhfat al-Ashrāf, pp. 399–400. And: Fuʾād Sezgin, History of Arab Heritage: Quranic Sciences and Hadith, vol. 1/1, pp. 327–330 (for information on the work’s composition, manuscripts, and commentaries). And: Carl Brockelmann, History of Arabic Literature, vol. 3, pp. 196–197. See also: Dhikr al-Huffāẓ by al-Dhahabī, vol. 2, pp. 698–701. And: Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb by Ibn Ḥajar, vol. 1, pp. 36–39. (2) In some manuscripts and print editions: li-jamʿ. (3) Originally: tadammanat. Confirmed in both manuscripts and printed editions. (4) He is Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Qazwīnī ibn Mājah al-Rubāʿī, the great muhaddith and author of the Sunan, a tafsīr, and a history. Born 209 AH, died 273 AH. His Sunan contains a total of 4,000 hadiths. The book al-Sunnah mentioned at its beginning—known in print as al-Muqaddimah—contains his refutations of certain sects.