Abu Ma'shar al-Sindi
Abū Ma'shar al-Sindī | |
|---|---|
| Personal life | |
| Born | 'Abd al-Raḥmān bin al-Walīd bin Hilāl al-Sindī c. 90 AH / 709 CE Yemen, Umayyad Caliphate |
| Died | Ramadan 170 AH / February–March 787 CE Baghdad, Iraq, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Children | Muhammad |
| Era | Late Umayyad and early Abbasid era |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith, Sīrah, History. Jurisprudence |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Teachers | Said ibn al-Musayyib, Abū Umāma As'ad bin Ḥanīf, Abu Barda bin Abi Musa al-Asha'ari, Hisham ibn Urwah, Sa'id Al-Maqbari, Muhammad bin Ka'b al-Qarzi, Musa bin Yasar al-Urdani |
| Profession | Tailor |
| Muslim leader | |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Najīḥ نجيح |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān بن عبد الرحمٰن |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū Maʿshar أبو معشر |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Sindī al-Madanī السندي المدني |
Abu Ma'shar Najīḥ bin 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī al-Madanī (Arabic: أبو معشر نجيح بن عبد الرحمن السندي المدني) commonly known as Abu Ma'shar al-Sindī was a Muslim historian and hadith scholar. A contemporary of Ibn Ishaq, he wrote the Kitāb al-Maghāzī, fragments of which are preserved in the works of al-Waqidi and Ibn Sa'd. Al-Tabari quoted him for Biblical information and chronological statements about the Islamic prophet Muhammad and later Muslim conquests. As a hadith transmitter, Muslim experts in biographical evaluation (ʿIlm al-rijāl) generally considered him unreliable.