( 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 Islamic world to possibly be the oldest surviving book of
hadith
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, it exists in various manuscript collections and printed versions are widely available.
[R. Marston Speight, ‘A Look at Variant Readings in the Hadith’, Der Islam, 2000, 77, 169] It was first discovered and published in the 20th century by
Muhammad Hamidullah. This publication was a collation of two manuscript copies of Sahifa Hammam bin Munabbih, one found in a library in
Damascus
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and the other in a library in
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The collection contains approximately 140 ahadith
all of which have an isnad (chain of narrators) ''The Prophet → Abū Hurayrah → Hammām → Ma‘mar → ‘Abd al-Razzāq''.
Hammam bin Munabbih was a disciple 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 "Fath ...
from whom he relates the narrations comprising the sahifah, noting ''"this is what Abū Ḥurayra told us, on the authority of Muhammad the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him"''. It was generally known that the Sahifah had been completely included in the
Musnad Ahmad.
The original manuscript for the text has been lost, but the text survives through secondary copies of it.
Contested Authorship
Although most muslim scholars and quite a few western orientalist hadith scholars confirm its attribution to Ibn Munabbih,
G.H.A. Juynboll argues that it was concocted by
'Abd ar-Razzaq.
Publications
*''Ṣaḥı̄fat Hammām ibn Munabbih. 1st ed., edited by Rifʿat Fawzı̄ ʿAbd al‐Muṭṭalib. Cairo: Maktabat al‐Khānjı̄. (1985)
*''Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih : the earliest extant work on the Hadith'' Muhammad Hamidullah tr. Muhammad Rahimuddin, Centre culturel islamique (Paris, France); 1979
See also
*
List of Sunni books
*
Sahifah Ṣaḥīfah (), also spelled sahifa or sahifeh, is an Arabic word meaning 'writing', 'book', or 'volume'. It may refer to:
*al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, a book of supplications attributed to Ali ibn Husayn, the great-grandson of the Islamic prophet Mu ...
References
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8th-century Arabic books
Sunni literature
Sunni hadith collections