Sahifat Hammam ibn Munabbih
one of the earliest hadith collections
Ṣaḥīfat Hammām ibn Munabbih (Arabic: صحيفة همام بن منبه), lit. 'The Book of Hammam ibn Munabbih', is a hadith collection compiled by the Yemeni Islamic scholar Hammam ibn Munabbih (d. 101 AH / 719 CE or 130 AH / 748 CE). It is sometimes quoted as one of the earliest surviving works of its kind.
The Sahifat exists in three somewhat variant recensions, one of which is in Ahmad ibn Hanbal's Musnad.
Discovery and publication
It is one of the oldest surviving collections of hadith; it exists in various manuscript collections, and printed versions are widely available. The original manuscript of the text has been lost, but it survives through secondary copies. It was first discovered and published in the 20th century by Muhammad Hamidullah. This publication was a collation of two manuscript copies of Sahifa Hammam ibn Munabbih, one found in a library in Damascus and the other in a library in Berlin. The collection contains 138 hadith.
Sources
According to Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Hammam ibn Munabbih was a disciple of Abu Hurairah. Abu Hurairah is the authority from whom he relates the narrations comprising the sahifah in their isnads (chains of narration), noting "this is what Abū Ḥurayra told us, on the authority of Muhammad the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him".
“Sahifat Hammam ibn Munabbih” enters the record as one of the earliest hadith collections. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sahifat, Hammam and Munabbih can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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