Hammam ibn Munabbih ibn Kamil al-Yamani ( ar, همام ابن منبه ابن كامل اليمني, translit=Hammām ibn Munnabih ibn Kāmil al-Yamanī) was an

Islamic scholar In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...

, from among the

Tabi‘in The tābi‘ūn ( ar, اَلتَّابِعُونَ, also accusative or genitive tābi‘īn , singular ''tābi‘'' ), "followers" or "successors", are the generation of Muslims who followed the companions (''ṣaḥābah'') of the Islamic proph ...

and one of the

narrators of hadith Biographical evaluation ( ar, عِلْمُ الرِّجال, ʿilm al-rijāl; literally meaning'' 'Knowledge of Men' , ''but more commonly understood as the ''Science of Narrators)'' refers to a discipline of Islamic religious studies within ha ...

Biography

He was the son of

Munabbih ibn Kamil Munabbih ibn Kamil ibn Sirajud-Din Dhee Kibaar Abu-Abdullah al-Yamani al-San'ani was a companion ( ar, Sahaba, script=Latn) of Muhammad. He been converted to Islam in the lifetime of Muhammad.Jewish Encyclopediabr> using the following as Bibliogra ...

, and

Wahb ibn Munabbih Wahb ibn Munabbih ( ar, وهب بن منبه) was a Yemenite Muslim traditionist of Dhimar (two days' journey from Sana'a) in Yemen; died at the age of ninety, in a year variously given by Arabic authorities as 725, 728, 732, and 737 C.E. He was a ...

was his brother. His main student was

Ma'mar ibn Rashid Ma'mar ibn Rashid () was an 8th-century Persian hadith scholar. A Persian ''mawla'' ("freedman"), he is cited as an authority in all six of the canonical Sunni hadith collections. Life Ma'mar ibn Rashid was born in 96 AH/714 CE in Basra. He ...

who transmitted Hammad's material to

ʽAbd al-Razzaq al-Sanʽani Abd al-Razzaq ibn Hammam ibn Nafi al-Sanani (, 744-827 CE, 126–211 AH), was an eighth-century Yemeni hadith scholar purportedly of Persian descent who compiled a hadith collection known as the ''Musannaf'' of Abd al-Razzaq. Biography Abd al ...

and Abdullah b. al-Mubarak among others. There is disagreement among scholars on the date of Hammam's death. 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.G. H. A. Juynboll, ''Encyclopedia of canonical ḥadīth'', Leiden 2007, 30.

Works

Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih ( ar, صحيفة همام بن منبه), , is a hadith collection compiled by the Islamic scholar Hammam ibn Munabbih ( or ). It is sometimes quoted as one of the earliest surviving works of its kind. Description Generally considered in the I ...

was one of the 9 students of

Abu Hurairah Abu Hurayra ( ar, أبو هريرة, translit=Abū Hurayra; –681) was one of the companions of Islamic prophet Muhammad and, according to Sunni Islam, the most prolific narrator of hadith. He was known by the '' kunyah'' Abu Hurayrah "Father ...

used to narrate the hadith he heard from the Prophet to his 9 students. Out of all 9 students, only

's book is quoted by some sourceshttp://quransmessage.com/articles/sahifah%20FM3.htm though he hasn't survived. The first quote of the

's book is in the

Musannaf Musannaf hadīth collections are defined by their arrangement of content according to topic and constitute a major category within the class of all such works. Etymologically, ''musannaf'' is the passive particle of the Arabic verb ''sannafa'', ...

. And currently the whole book is copied into Hadith book

Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal ''Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal'' ( ar, مسند أحمد بن حنبل) is a collection of musnad hadith compiled by the Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 AH/855 AD) to whom the Hanbali fiqh (legislation) is attributed. Description It is one ...

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750 deaths Tabi‘un hadith narrators Tabi‘un Year of birth unknown Yemenite people of Iranian descent {{Islamic-scholar-stub

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