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Al-Nasa'i

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “noted collector of hadith”. Today it says “known to have written”.
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Al-Nasā'ī , full name Aḥmad ibn Shu`ayb ibn Alī ibn Sīnān Abū `Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Nasā'ī , was a noted collector of hadith (sayings of Muhammad ), and wrote one of the six canonical hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims , al-Sunan al-ṣughrā , as well as 15 other books, 6 dealing with the science of hadith.1 He was born in Nasā (in Khorasan ) about 829 (214 AH), and died in 915 (303 AH). v t e2

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noted collector of hadith

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known to have written

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