Tamam ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi
- Died
- 414 AH
- Born in
- Damascus
Tamam ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi (330 or 339–414 AH / 942 or 951–1023 CE) was a Syrian hadith scholar and hafiz based in Damascus, best known for compiling the hadith collection Fawaid Tammam .
Lineage and education
Abu al-Qasim Tamam ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Ja'far ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Junayd al-Bajali al-Razi al-Dimashqi was born in Damascus in 330 AH (942 CE), though another report places his birth in 339 AH (951 CE) . He was raised in a scholarly household; his father, Abu al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Razi (d. 347 AH), was an established hadith master known in Rayy as Abu al-Rustaqi, earning Tamam the designation of "the hafiz, son of the hafiz" .
Tamam studied and heard hadith extensively in Damascus from his father, as well as from scholars including Khaythama ibn Sulayman, Abu al-Maymun Abd al-Rahman ibn Rashid al-Bajali, and Abu al-Tayyib Muhammad ibn Humayd al-Hawrani . A large number of traditionists transmitted from him, including one of his own senior teachers, Abd al-Wahhab al-Kilabi, as well as Abd al-Aziz al-Kattani .
Scholarly standing
Tamam was regarded as the foremost hadith authority of the Levant (Sham) in his generation, characterized as a reliable and trustworthy traditionist (thiqah ma'mun) . Biographers recorded that none possessed a greater memory or mastery over the traditions transmitted by the scholars of Sham . Abu Bakr ibn al-Haddad stated that no scholar of comparable memorization and expertise had been encountered, while Abu Ali al-Ahwazi praised him as exceptionally versed in hadith and the critical evaluation of narrators .
Death
Tamam died in Damascus on 3 Muharram 414 AH (March 1023 CE) .
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List of Works
Islam Zayd ibn Haritha wa Ghayrihi min Ahadith al-Shuyukh is a specialized hadith collection (juz') centering on narrations transmitted from teachers. It prominently features a lengthy historical and biographical report detailing the captivity, upbringing, and conversion to Islam of the early companion Zayd ibn Haritha alongside the conversion of his father, Haritha ibn Sharahil.
Musnad al-Muqillin min al-Umara wa al-Salatin is a specialized hadith tract belonging to the musnad subgenre. Rather than organizing reports by standard legal chapters, the collection gathers prophetic narrations transmitted specifically through political rulers, governors, and ministers who possessed few reported traditions in the canonical corpus.
Fawaid Tammam is a thirty-part collection of hadith and narrations belonging to the fawa'id (hadith extracts) genre. Structured across thirty fascicles rather than thematic legal chapters, the work brings together narrations transmitted from various teachers, preserving rare traditions, elevated chains of transmission, and regional narrations from the Levant (Sham).