Ibn Hibban

Ibn Hibban
ابن حبان
Ibn Hibban; ابن حبان
Title	“Sheikh of Khorasan”
Personal life
Born	270 A.H. (884 CE); Bust (current name Lashkargah), Saffarid dynasty(present-day Afghanistan)
Died	354 A.H. (965 CE); Bust (current name Lashkargah), Saffarid dynasty(present-day Afghanistan)
Resting place	Lashkargah, Afghanistan
Era	Islamic Golden Age, ; Middle Abbasid era
Main interest(s)	Hadith studies
Notable work(s)	Sahih Ibn Hibban
Occupation	Muhaddith, Hadith compiler, Islamic scholar
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Creed	Ash'ari
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Al-Shafi'i; Al-Nasa'i; Ibn Khuzaymah; Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari;
	Influenced Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri; Al-Daraqutni; Al-Khattabi; Ibn Manda;
	Arabic name
Personal (Ism)	Muhammad; (محمد)
Patronymic (Nasab)	Ibn Hibban ibn Ahmad ibn Hibban; (ابن حبان ابن أحمد ابن حبان)
Teknonymic (Kunya)	Abu Hatim, Abu Bakr; (ابو حاتم, ابو بكر)
Toponymic (Nisba)	al-Tamimi al-Darimi al-Busti; (التمیمی الدارمی البستی)

Muḥammad ibn Hibbān al-Bustī (Arabic: محمد ابن حبان البستی) (c. 270–354/884–965) was a Muslim Arab scholar, polymath and a prominent Shafi'i traditionist, ḥadith critic, evaluator of rijal, compiler and interpreter of hadith. He was a prolific writer and well-versed in numerous Islamic fields such as fiqh (reaching the level of Ijtihad) as well as in the sciences of astronomy, medicine, history and other disciplines.