RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Ibn Majah

824 - 886

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Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī (Arabic: ابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الربعي القزويني; (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a medieval scholar of hadith of Persian origin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Majah has received more than 288,178 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Ibn Majah is the 500th most popular religious figure (up from 566th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Iran (up from 71st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

Ibn Majah is most famous for his work of hadith, which is a collection of sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ibn Majah ranks 500 out of 3,187. Before him are Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Devadatta, Dorothea of Caesarea, Hasan al-Askari, Saint Eustace, and Ramla bint Abi Sufyan. After him are Bruno of Cologne, Mus‘ab ibn 'Umair, 13th Dalai Lama, Rāhula, Maria al-Qibtiyya, and Paul of Thebes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 824, Ibn Majah ranks 2. Before him is Al-Tirmidhi.  Among people deceased in 886, Ibn Majah ranks 2. Before him is Basil I. After him are Muhammad I of Córdoba, Abu Maʿshar, Bernard Plantapilosa, Joseph the Hymnographer, García Jiménez of Pamplona, and Adalbert I, Margrave of Tuscany.

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    Al-Tirmidhi

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    824 - 892

    HPI: 76.73

    Rank: 1

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    Ibn Majah

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    824 - 886

    HPI: 72.28

    Rank: 2

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ibn Majah ranks 67 out of 631. Before him are Cyaxares (-700), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934), Masoud Barzani (1946), Cyrus I (-690), Mohammad Khatami (1943), and Abbas Kiarostami (1940). After him are Achaemenes (-800), Öljaitü (1280), Shapur II (309), Babak Khorramdin (798), Bayazid Bastami (804), and Abolhassan Banisadr (1933).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Ibn Majah ranks 9. Before him are Esther (-600), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), Bahá'u'lláh (1817), and Báb (1819). After him are Mordecai (null), Sasan (200), Anastasius of Persia (550), Piruz Nahavandi (700), Safi-ad-din Ardabili (1252), and `Abdu'l-Bahá (1844).

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