Hammad ibn Salamah
Hammad ibn Salamah | |
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| Title | Mufti al-Basra |
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| Died | 120 AH/738 CE |
| Religion | Islam |
| Creed | Sunni, Athari |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith, Arabic language |
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Abu Salma Hammad ibn Salamah ibn Dinar al-Basri (Arabic: حماد بن سلمة بن دينار البصري; died 167 AH/783 CE[1]), the son of Salamah ibn Dinar, was Basra's mufti, a prominent narrator of hadith and one of the earliest grammarians of the Arabic language, who had a great influence on his student, Sibawayh.[1] Another of his great students is the founder of the Hanafi Legal school, Abu Hanifa, who spent a considerable amount of time with Hammad. [2]
He was a client (mawla) of either Banu Tamim or Quraysh.[1] He was from the generation of the Tabi‘ al-Tabi‘in, one of the early generations of Islam.[3]
Life
Ibn Salamah was born roughly in AH 82 (701/702) and died of natural causes in AH 167 (783/784). In hadith, or recorded statements and actions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, he was a narrator for later scholars Ibn Jurayj, Sufyan al-Thawri and Abdullah ibn Mubarak.[3] His status was considered by many Muslim scholars to be of the highest rank in regard to biographical evaluation,[4] and he is quoted in both Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari, the two most significant collections for Sunni Muslims.[3] He is also considered to have been a teacher of both Abu Dawud at-Tayalisi and Yunus ibn Habib.[5]
Hammad was one of the main teachers of Abu Hanifa. [2]
References
- ^ a b c Sībawayh, ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān (1988), Hārūn, ʻAbd al-Salām Muḥammad (ed.), Al-Kitāb Kitāb Sībawayh Abī Bishr ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān ibn Qanbar, vol. Introduction (3rd ed.), Cairo: Maktabat al-Khānjī, pp. 8–9
- ^ a b Nadwī, Muḥammad Akram. (2007). Abu Hanifa. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-529-6. OCLC 123114550.
- ^ a b c 20021 – Hammad bin Salama (Abu Salma, Abu Sakhar) at Muslim Scholars Database. Copyright (c) 2011 & beyond, Arees Institute.
- ^ Israr Ahmed, Authentication of Hadith: Redefining the Criteria, pg. 24. Herndon: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2010. ISBN 9781565644489
- ^ Ibn Khallikan, Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch, vol. 4, pg. 586. Trns. William McGuckin de Slane. London: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1871.
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