Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani

Abd al-Razzaq ibn Hammam ibn Nafi' al-San'ani (Arabic: عبد الرزاق بن همام بن نافع الصنعاني, romanized: ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Hammām ibn Nāfiʿ al-Ṣanʿānī, 744 – January 827 CE, 126–211 AH), was a prominent early Muslim hadith scholar, jurist, and author from Yemen. He became widely recognized as one of the foremost transmitters of hadith in the second/eighth century, with a scholarly network spanning Yemen, the Hijaz, Iraq, and Syria. His reputation is especially tied to his monumental compilation al-Muṣannaf, which preserves around 22,000 hadiths and remains one of the earliest and most comprehensive collections of Islamic tradition.

Razzaq studied extensively with leading scholars such as Maʿmar ibn Rāshid, Ibn Jurayj, Sufyān al-Thawrī, and Mālik ibn Anas. By the end of the second Islamic century, he had become the preeminent scholar of Yemen, attracting numerous students including Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn. His works encompassed hadith, Qurʾanic exegesis, and historical writings, though several have been lost.