Ma'mar ibn Rashid

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Ma'mar ibn Rashid
معمر بن راشد
Personal
Born96 AH/714 CE
Prophetic biography
Notable work(s)The Book of Expeditions
Muslim leader
Students
  • ʽAbd al-Razzaq al-Sanʽani, Hisham ibn Yusuf al-Sanʽani[1]
Influenced by
  • Qatada ibn Di'amah

Ma'mar ibn Rashid (

Arabic: معمر بن راشد, romanizedMaʿmar ibn Rāshid) was an eighth-century hadith scholar. A Persian mawla ("freedman"),[2] he is cited as an authority in all six of the canonical Sunni hadith collections.[2][3]

Life

Ma'mar ibn Rashid was born in 96 AH/714 CE in

While on a journey to trade wares at

Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri. Ma'mar learned and transmitted a large body of traditions from al-Zuhri through audition, public recitation and writing, making his narrations coveted by other hadith scholars.[4][5]
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Ma'mar remained in Resafa after al-Zuhri's death, and witnessed the removal of his late teacher's manuscripts from the Umayyad court following the assassination of

sira-maghazi literature.[4] Also preserved is ʽAbd al-Razzaq's recension of Ma'mar's hadith collection, al-Jāmi'.[5]
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See also

Bibliography

  • Rāshid, Maʿmar ibn, et al. The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad. Edited by Sean W. Anthony, NYU Press, 2015.

References

  1. ^ Hati̇boğlu, İbrahi̇m. "MA'MER b. RÂŞİD". İslâm Ansiklopedisi.
  2. ^ a b c d Anthony, Sean W. "Maʿmar b. Rāshid". Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE.
  3. ^ "Ma'mar bin Rashid معمر بن راشد". muslimscholars.info. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
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  5. ^ a b al-Azami, Muhammad Mustafa (1978). Studies in Early Hadith Literature: with a critical edition of some early texts. Indiapolis, Indiana: American Trust Publications.