Ma'mar ibn Rashid | |
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معمر بن راشد | |
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| Born | 96 AH/714 CE |
| Died | 153 AH/770 CE |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Caliphate |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith, 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] He was a student of and is considered one of the most important sources for Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri.[4]
Ma'mar is the author of the Kitāb al-Maghāzi (The Expeditions), one of the earliest surviving prophetic biographies in Islamic literature, alongside that of Ibn Ishaq. Ma'mar's work survives through a recension produced by his student, Abd al-Razzaq (d. 211/827). In 2015, an English translation of it was published by Sean Anthony.[5]
Ma'mar also wrote the al-Jāmiʿ, which has also come down through the transmission of Abd al-Razzaq, as an appendix of his Musannaf. This was one of the earliest, if not the earliest, thematic compilation of hadith about Muhammad. One chapter of it is the earliest known systematic exposition of what was to become the dalāʾil al-nubūwa ("proofs of prophethood") literature.[6]