( ar, صحيفة همام بن منبه), , is a
hadith collection compiled by the Islamic scholar
Hammam ibn Munabbih
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, from among the Tabi‘in and one of the narrators of hadith.
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( 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
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...
, 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
Muhammad Hamidullah ( ur, محمد حمیداللہ, translit=Muḥammad Ḥamīdullāh; 19 February 1908 – 17 December 2002) was a scholar of hadiths (''muhaddith)'' and Islamic law ( faqih) and a prolific academic author. A polymath with com ...
. 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
Berlin
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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 "Fathe ...
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
''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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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 G.H.A. Juynboll (Gualtherüs (Gautier) Hendrik Albert Juynboll) (1935-2010) was a scholar of Islam specializing in ''Hadith'', (the collection of sayings attributed to the Prophet of Islam Muhammad), about which he published more than twenty articl ...
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
This is a list of significant books in the doctrines of Sunni Islam. A classical example of an index of Islamic books can be found in Kitāb al-Fihrist of Ibn Al-Nadim.
The Qur'an and its translations (in English)
:# ''The Meaning of the Glorio ...
*
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