Hammad ibn Salamah | |
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Personal | |
Died | 167 AH/783 CE |
Religion | Islam |
Era | Abbasid era |
Region | Abbasid Caliphate |
Creed | Sunni, Athari |
Main interest(s) | Hadith, Arabic language |
Muslim leader | |
Influenced |
Abu Salma Hammad ibn Salamah ibn Dinar al-Basri (Arabic: حماد بن سلمة بن دينار البصري; died 167 AH/783 CE[1]), the son of Salamah ibn Dinar, was a prominent narrator of hadith and one of the earliest grammarians of the Arabic language. He was noted to have had a great influence on his student, Sibawayh.[1]
He was a client (mawla) of either Banu Tamim or Quraysh.[1] He was from the generation of the Tabi‘ al-Tabi‘in, one of the early generations of Islam.[2]
Ibn Salamah was born roughly in AH 82 (701/702) and died of natural causes in AH 167 (783/784). In hadith, or recorded statements and actions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, he was a narrator for later scholars Ibn Jurayj, Sufyan al-Thawri and Abdullah ibn Mubarak.[2] His status was considered by many Muslim scholars to be of the highest rank in regard to biographical evaluation,[3] and he is quoted in both Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari, the two most significant collections for Sunni Muslims.[2] He is also considered to have been a teacher of both Abu Dawud at-Tayalisi and Yunus ibn Habib.[4]