Mamar Ibn Rashid

Maʿmar ibn Rāshid,

Urwah ibn al-Zubayr

The major contribution of Maʿmar ibn Rāshid and Ibn Isḥāq was to bring the material from different sources together in one place.

ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṣanʿānī

Nor should it be assumed that hadiths (reports about the Prophet Muḥammad) were only written down when al-Bukhārī (d. 256/870) and the other famous collectors of hadiths of that era produced their great compilations. Nonetheless, the compilation by Maʿmar ibn Rāshid of the present book was significant in its time for preserving the earlier scattered material.

Professor M. A. S. Abdel Haleem