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Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani
Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani
744 CE–827 CE · Damascus
Abd al-Razzaq ibn Hammam al-San'ani (c. 126–211 AH / c. 744–827 CE) was an early Sunni hadith scholar and jurist from Sanaa in Yemen, regarded by his contemporaries as the foremost traditionist of his region. He is best known for the Musannaf, one of the earliest surviving topically arranged hadith compilations (preserving roughly 22,000 reports), and for a Tafsir transmitting early Quranic exegesis. He studied for years under Ma'mar ibn Rashid and also transmitted from Ibn Jurayj, Sufyan al-Thawri, al-Awza'i, and Malik ibn Anas, and counted leading figures such as Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Yahya ibn Ma'in among his students. Some later Sunni critics questioned a portion of his transmissions and noted reports of Shia sympathies (an attribution his student Ahmad ibn Hanbal said he had not personally heard from him), while still relying broadly on his material.
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