The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (156 page)

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al-Tirmidh
, Abu ‘
s
Mu
ammad
(d.
c.
889 (AH 275)).
Author of one of the six authoritative collections of
ad
th
, which is known sometimes as
a
, but more often as
J
mi
‘. He was attentive to the reliability of the
isn
d
, as well as the content, and, as a result, his collection is shorter (and less repetitious) than those of
al-Bukh
r
and
Muslim
.

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