Hammam ibn Munabbih

Islamic scholar (died 719)

Hammam ibn Munabbih

Era	Medieval era

Hammam ibn Munabbih (Arabic: همام ابن منبه^[1]) was an Islamic scholar, from among the Tabi‘in and one of the narrators of hadith.

Biography

Family

Hammam was the son of Munabbih ibn Kamil (his father) and his brother was Wahb ibn Munabbih.^{[citation needed]}

Students

According to the Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' of Al-Dhahabi, Hammam would teach one of his main students, Ma'mar ibn Rashid, about the traditions of Abu Hurayra in Medina. Subsequently, Ma'mar travelled to and lived out the rest of his life in Sanaa.^[2] Later, Mam'ar's traditions were transmitted to ʽAbd al-Razzaq al-Sanʽani, Abdullah b. al-Mubarak, and others.^{[citation needed]}

Death

There is disagreement among scholars on the date of Hammam's death.^[1] Two conflicting clusters of dates exist for Hummam's death in biographical dictionaries. The first cluster being 101 or 102AH/719-720, the second being 131 or 132AH/749-750.^[3] The more common death date in the sources is 749/750, and Harald Motzki has proposed that the alternative date may have been a product of a copying error.^[4]

Sahifah

Hammam was one of the 9 students of Abu Hurairah. Abu Hurairah used to narrate the hadith he heard from the Prophet to his nine students. Of all nine, only the Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih, composed by Hammam, is quoted by extant sources although it has not survived. The first quote is in the Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah. The entire text is also copied into the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b Bennet, Clinton. The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies. p. 92. Scholars disagree on the date of Hammam b. Munabbih's death. Muhammed Hamidullah, who first discovered and published the Sahifa gives the year as 101 AH/719 CE. Beeston and Dickinson follow Hamidullah in this, while Jonathan Brown gives it as 130 AH/748 CE.
^ Anthony, Sean W. (2020). Muhammad and the empires of faith: the making of the prophet of Islam. Oakland (Calif.): University of California press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-520-97452-4.
^ G. H. A. Juynboll, Encyclopedia of canonical ḥadīth, Leiden 2007, 30.
^ Motzki, Harald (2009). "Review of: G.H.A. JUYBOLL, Encyclopedia of canonical ḥadīth". Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 36: 547.