Al-Tirmidhi
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Al-Tirmidhi, full name Abu Isa Muhammad ibn Isa ibn Musa ibn al-Dahhak al-Sulami al-Tirmidhi (824-892, ie 209 AH - 13 Rajab 279 AH) was a medieval collector of hadith (sayings of Muhammad), who wrote the Jami at-Tirmidhi, one of the six canonical hadith compilations used in Sunni Islam. He was born (and would die) at Bugh, a suburb of Termez, to a family of the widespread Banu 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. He was blind in the last two years of his life. He 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.
External source
- Imam Tirmidhi's Contribution towards Hadith (http://www.jamiat.org.za/isinfo/tirmidhi.html)
- Imam Tirmidhi (http://www.sunnah.org/history/Scholars/imam_tirmidhi.htm)