Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi
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| Died | c787. AD, 8th century
Abbasid Caliphate
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| Religion | Islam |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Region | Abbasid Caliphate |
| Occupation | Scholar of Islam |
Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani (full name: Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ (or Nujayḥ)[1] ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī al-Madanī, Arabic: أبو معشر نجيح بن عبد الرحمن السندي المدني), d. 787, was a Muslim historian and hadith scholar.[2] A contemporary of Ibn Ishaq, he wrote the Kitāb al-Maghāzī, fragments of which are preserved in the works of al-Waqidi and Ibn Sa'd.[2] Al-Tabari quoted him for Biblical information and chronological statements about the Islamic prophet Muhammad and later Muslim conquests.[2][3] As a hadith transmitter, Muslim experts in biographical evaluation (ʿIlm al-rijāl) generally considered him unreliable.[4]
OfSindhi ancestry, Abu Ma'shar was a freed slave from Yemen who lived in Medina.[2] In 160 AH / 776 CE, he left Medina and settled in Baghdad, where he was close to members of the Abbasid court until his death in 170 AH / 787 CE.[2]
