Sunan Ibn Mājah (Arabic: سُنن ابن ماجه) is one of the six major Sunni hadith collections (Kutub al-Sittah).
[3] Although Ibn Mājah related hadith from scholars across the eastern Islamic world, neither he nor his Sunan were well known outside of his native region of northwestern Iran until the 5th/11th century.
[1] Nonetheless, consensus among Sunni scholars concerning this six-book canon, which included Ibn Mājah's Sunan, did not occur until the 7th/13th century, and even then this consensus was largely contained to the Sunni scholarly community in the eastern Islamic world.
[6] Scholars such as al-Nawawi (died 676/1277) and Ibn Khaldun (died 808/1405) excluded Sunan Ibn Mājah from their lists of canonical Sunni hadith collections, while others replaced it with either the Muwatta Imam Malik or with the Sunan al-Darimi.
Editor, Muhammad Fu'ād 'Abd al-Bāqī's 1952–53 Cairo publication, in 2 volumes, provides the standard topical classification of the hadith Arabic text.