Ma'mar ibn Rashid
Ma'mar ibn Rashid | |
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معمر بن راشد | |
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Born | 96 AH/714 CE Prophetic biography |
Notable work(s) | The Book of Expeditions |
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Ma'mar ibn Rashid (
Arabic: معمر بن راشد, romanized: Maʿmar 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
Qatada ibn Di'ama.[4]
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. ISBN 9781479816828
References
- ^ Hati̇boğlu, İbrahi̇m. "MA'MER b. RÂŞİD". İslâm Ansiklopedisi.
- ^ a b c d Anthony, Sean W. "Maʿmar b. Rāshid". Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE.
- ^ "Ma'mar bin Rashid معمر بن راشد". muslimscholars.info. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- ^ JSTOR j.ctt17rw4z3.
- ^ 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.