Abd al-Razzaq ibn Hammam ibn Nafi' al-San'ani (, 744 – January 827 CE, 126–211 AH), a Yemeni

hadith Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

scholar who compiled a hadith collection known as the ''Musannaf'' of Abd al-Razzaq.

Biography

Abd al-Razzaq was born in 126 AH/744 CE to a father who was a hadith scholar. At the age of 20, he began his studies in

Sanaa Sanaa, officially the Sanaa Municipality, is the ''de jure'' capital and largest city of Yemen. The city is the capital of the Sanaa Governorate, but is not part of the governorate, as it forms a separate administrative unit. At an elevation ...

where he was a student of

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 ...

for eight years, also learning under

Ibn Jurayj Abd al-Malik ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Jurayj (, 80 AH/699 CE - 150 AH/767 CE) was an eighth-century ''faqīh'', exegete and hadith transmitter from the Taba' at-Tabi'in. Biography Ibn Jurayj was born in Mecca in 80 AH/699 CE. His father Abd al-Aziz w ...

Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah Abū Muḥammad Sufyān ibn ʽUyaynah ibn Maymūn al-Hilālī al-Kūfī () (725 – ) was a prominent eighth-century Islamic religious scholar from Mecca. He was from the third generation of Islam referred to as the Tabi' al-Tabi'in, "the followe ...

and

Sufyan al-Thawri Abū ʿAbd Allāh Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn Masrūq ibn Ḥamza al-Thawrī al-Muḍarī al-Kūfī (; 716–778 CE / 97–161 AH), commonly known as Sufyān al-Thawrī (), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, ascetic, traditionist, and eponymous ...

. In pursuit of hadith, Abd al-Razzaq journeyed to the

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and

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. When attending the lectures of scholars to learn hadith through audition, he reportedly brought several scribes with him to assist in recording them. In the latter half of the second Hijri century, he compiled his own ''musannaf'', consisting mostly of traditions transmitted by his teachers. He also taught hadith. Among those who transmitted from him were Yaḥya ibn Maʻin,

Ali ibn al-Madini Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbdillāh ibn Jaʻfar al-Madīnī (778 CE/161 AH – 849/234) () was a ninth-century Sunni Islamic scholar who was influential in the science of hadith. Alongside Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ibn Abi Shaybah and Yahya ibn Ma' ...

and

Ahmad ibn Hanbal Ahmad ibn Hanbal (; (164-241 AH; 780 – 855 CE) was an Arab Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, traditionist, ascetic and eponym of the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence—one of the four major orthodox legal schools of Sunni Islam. T ...

. He died in mid-Shawwal 211 AH/early January 827 CE.Motzki, Harald, “ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṣanʿānī”, in: ''Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE'', Edited by: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Consulted online on 05 August 2020

Works

Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq ''Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanʿani'' () is an early hadith collection compiled by the Yemeni hadith scholar ʽAbd al-Razzaq al-Sanʽani (744–827). As a collection of the '' musannaf'' genre, it contains over 18,000 traditions arranged in top ...

* Tafsir book that was included in

Mustadrak al-Hakem ''Al-Mustadrak 'ala al-Sahihayn'' () or ''Mustadrak Al Hakim'' () is a five volume hadith collection written by Hakim al-Nishapuri (Nishapur is located in Iran). He wrote it in the year AH 393 (1002–1003 CE), when he was 72 years old. Descr ...

References

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