JAMB Islamic Religious Knowledge (IRK) 2016 Paper

At-Tirmidhi began the study of hadith at the age of 20. From the year 235 AH (849/850) he traveled widely in Khurasan , Iraq, and the Hijaz in order to collect hadith. He wrote many books and was one of the six compilers of Hadith.
Tirmidhi was blind in the last two years of his life, according to adh-Dhahabi. His blindness is said to have been the consequence of excessive weeping, either due to fear of Allah or over the death of al-Bukhari.