Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani (full name: , ar, أبو معشر نجيح بن عبد الرحمن السندي المدني), d. 787, was a

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and

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. A contemporary of

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, he wrote the , fragments of which are preserved in the works of al-Waqidi and

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quoted him for Biblical information and chronological statements about the Islamic prophet

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and later Muslim conquests. As a hadith transmitter, Muslim experts in biographical evaluation () generally considered him unreliable.

Life

Possibly of Indian ( Sindhi) parentage, Abu Ma'shar was a freed slave from

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who lived in

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. In 160 AH / 776 CE he left Medina and settled in Baghdad, where he was close to members of the

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court until his death in 170 AH / 787 CE.

References

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