( 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. Biogr ...

( or ). It is sometimes quoted as one of the earliest surviving works of its kind.

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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 )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...

and the other in a library in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

. 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 ...

. 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

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{{Authority control 8th-century Arabic books Sunni literature Sunni hadith collections

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Contested Authorship

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