Abu Ma'shar Najih Al-Madani

Abu Maʿshar Najīḥ (or Nujayḥ) ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī al-Madanī (Arabic: أبو معشر نجيح المدني‎) (d. 787),[1] was a Medinese historian and a contemporary of Ibn Ishaq. He wrote 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, he is generally considered unreliable.[3]

Life

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

References
  1. Horovitz, J. & Rosenthal, F. (1960). "Abu Maʿshar". In Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 140. 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. Harvard University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-674-04742-6.
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