Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani
Sindhi Muslim scholar of hadith / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the hadith scholar. For the astrologer, see Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi.
Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani (full name: Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ (or Nujayḥ)[1] ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī al-Madanī, Arabic: أبو معشر نجيح بن عبد الرحمن السندي المدني), d. 787, was a Muslim historian and hadith scholar.[2] 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.[2] Al-Tabari quoted him for Biblical information and chronological statements about the Islamic prophet Muhammad and later Muslim conquests.[2][3] As a hadith transmitter, Muslim experts in biographical evaluation (ʿIlm al-rijāl) generally considered him unreliable.[4]
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Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi | |
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Died | c787. AD, 8th century Abbasid Caliphate |
Religion | Islam |
Era | Islamic Golden Age |
Region | Abbasid Caliphate |
Occupation | Scholar of Islam |
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