Abu Ma'shar al-Sindi

Imam
Abū Ma'shar al-Sindī
Imam 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 [ar], Abu Barda bin Abi Musa al-Asha'ari [ar], Hisham ibn Urwah, Sa'id Al-Maqbari [ar], [[ Muhammad bin Ka'b al-Qarzi]] [ar], Musa bin Yasar al-Urdani
Profession	Tailor
Muslim leader
	Students Sufyan al-Thawri, Al-Layth ibn Sa'd, Al-Waqidi, Waki' ibn al-Jarrah;
	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.^[1] 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.^[1] Al-Tabari quoted him for Biblical information and chronological statements about the Islamic prophet Muhammad and later Muslim conquests.^[1]^[2] As a hadith transmitter, Muslim experts in biographical evaluation (ʿIlm al-rijāl) generally considered him unreliable.^[3]

Life

Of Sindhi ancestry, Abu Ma'shar was a freed slave from Yemen who lived in Medina.^[1] In 160 AH / 776 CE, he left Medina and settled in Baghdad, where he was close to members of the Abbasid court until his death in 170 AH / 787 CE.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Horovitz, J. & Rosenthal, F. (1960). "Abū Maʿshar Nadjīḥ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī". In Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 140. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0230. OCLC 495469456.
^ Hawting, G. R., ed. (1996). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XVII: The First Civil War: From the Battle of Siffīn to the Death of ʿAlī, A.D. 656–661/A.H. 36–40. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. p. xvii. ISBN 978-0-7914-2393-6.
^ Ahmed, Shahab (2017-04-24). Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam. Harvard University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-674-04742-6.

[EI2-1] Horovitz, J. & Rosenthal, F. (1960). "Abū Maʿshar Nadjīḥ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī". In Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 140. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0230. OCLC 495469456.

[2] Hawting, G. R., ed. (1996). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XVII: The First Civil War: From the Battle of Siffīn to the Death of ʿAlī, A.D. 656–661/A.H. 36–40. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. p. xvii. ISBN 978-0-7914-2393-6.

[3] Ahmed, Shahab (2017-04-24). Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam. Harvard University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-674-04742-6.

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