Hammam ibn Munabbih () was an

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, from among the Tabi‘in and one of the

narrators of hadith Biographical evaluation (; literally meaning'' 'Knowledge of Men', ''but more commonly understood as the ''Science of Narrators)'' refers to a discipline of Islamic religious studies within hadith terminology in which the narrators of hadith are ...

Biography

Family

Hammam was the son of Munabbih ibn Kamil and brother of Wahb ibn Munabbih.

Students

According to the ''

Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' ''Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalā’'' () is a biographical dictionary written by al-Dhahabi Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumā ...

'' of

Al-Dhahabi Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was an Atharism, Athari ...

, Hammam would teach one of his main students,

Ma'mar ibn Rashid Ma'mar ibn Rashid () was an eighth-century hadith scholar. A Persian ''mawla'' ("freedman"), he is cited as an authority in all six of the canonical Sunni hadith collections. He was a student of and is considered one of the most important sourc ...

, about the traditions of Abu Hurayra in

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. Subsequently, Ma'mar travelled to and lived out the rest of his life in

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. Later, Mam'ar's traditions were transmitted to ʽAbd al-Razzaq al-Sanʽani, Abdullah b. al-Mubarak, and others.

Death

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. 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.

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

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