Wikipedia's first sentence called it “medinese historian and a contemporary of ibn ishaq”. Today it says “muslim historian and hadith scholar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Sindhi Muslim scholar of hadith”. It now reads “8th-century Sindhi Muslim scholar of hadith”.
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8th-century Sindhi Muslim scholar of hadith This article is about the hadith scholar. Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani (full name: Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ (or Nujayḥ) ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī al-Madanī , Arabic : أبو معشر نجيح بن عبد الرحمن السندي المدني ), d. 787, was a Muslim historian and hadith scholar . A contemporary of Ibn Ishaq , he wrote the Kitāb al-Maghāzī , fragments of which are preserved in the works of al-Waqidi and Ibn Sa'd . Al-Tabari quoted him for Biblical information and chronological statements about the Islamic prophet Muhammad and later Muslim conquests . As a hadith transmitter, Muslim experts in biographical evaluation ( ʿIlm al-rijāl ) generally considered him unreliable. The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXV: The End of Expansion: The Caliphate of Hishām, A.D. 724–738/A.H. 105–120 . The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition . The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XVII: The First Civil War: From the Battle of Siffīn to the Death of ʿAlī, A.D. 656–661/A.H. 36–40 .
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Abu Maʿshar Najīḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī al-Madanī (d. 787), was a Medinese historian and a contemporary of Ibn Ishaq . He wrote Kitāb al-Maghāzī fragments of which are preserved in the works of al-Waqidi and Ibn Sa'd . Al-Tabari quoted him for biblical information and chronological statements about the Islamic prophet Muhammad and later Muslim conquests . As a hadith transmitter , he is generally considered unreliable. The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition . The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XVII: The First Civil War: From the Battle of Siffīn to the Death of ʿAlī, A.D. 656–661/A.H. 36–40 .
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Sindhi Muslim scholar of hadith This article is about the hadith scholar.Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani (full name: Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ (or Nujayḥ) ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī al-Madanī , ), d. 787, was a Muslim historian and hadith scholar . A contemporary of Ibn Ishaq , he wrote the Kitāb al-Maghāzī , fragments of which are preserved in the works of al-Waqidi and Ibn Sa'd . Al-Tabari quoted him for Biblical information and chronological statements about the Islamic prophet Muhammad and later Muslim conquests . As a hadith transmitter, Muslim experts in biographical evaluation ( ʿIlm al-rijāl ) generally considered him unreliable.The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXV: The End of Expansion: The Caliphate of Hishām, A.D. 724–738/A.H. 105–120 . The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition . The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XVII: The First Civil War: From the Battle of Siffīn to the Death of ʿAlī, A.D. 656–661/A.H. 36–40 .
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medinese historian and a contemporary of ibn ishaq
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muslim historian and hadith scholar
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