al-Jami - Mamar ibn Rashid
- Author died
- 153 AH
- Editions
- Al-Majlis al-Ilmi
al-Jami‘ (The Compendium) is an early collection of hadith and narrations (athar) compiled by the Basran traditionist Ma‘mar ibn Rashid (d. 153 AH / 770 CE) . Transmitted through his Yemeni student Abd al-Razzaq al-San‘ani (d. 211 AH / 827 CE), it forms one of the earliest extant compendiums of prophetic traditions and statements of early Muslim figures .
Authorship and Transmission
The work has reached posterity primarily as an appendix appended to the end of al-Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq al-San‘ani . The primary transmission of the text runs through Abd al-Razzaq's student Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Dabari (d. 285 AH), from whom subsequent traditionists—including Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani and Abu Nu‘aym al-Asbahani—received and narrated the book . In classical bibliographic literature, Ibn Khayr al-Ishbili identified the closing section of Abd al-Razzaq's Musannaf as Jami‘ Ma‘mar . Muhammad ibn Isma‘il al-Rudani documented it under the title Kitab al-Jami‘ by Ma‘mar ibn Rashid, noting that it was also called al-Musnad al-mustakhraj min Jami‘ Ma‘mar .
Modern scholars have discussed the attribution of the text between Ma‘mar and Abd al-Razzaq. Muhammad Raf‘at al-Sa‘id argued that the text is inherently Ma‘mar's original compilation, citing classical references confirming Ma‘mar's authorship of a Jami‘ and observing that out of 1,614 narrations in the text, all are transmitted from Ma‘mar except for 57 reports, which he suggested were interpolated by later transmitters such as al-Dabari . In contrast, editor Habib al-Rahman al-A‘zami maintained in an article in the journal al-Ba‘th al-Islami that the compendium was Abd al-Razzaq's own compilation concluding his Musannaf .
Structure and Scope
Unlike strictly legal (fiqh) collections, a jami‘ in early hadith compilation gathers a broader scope of topics that do not fall under a single jurisprudential rubric . The work encompasses diverse thematic chapters, recording marfu‘ (prophetic), mawquf (Companions'), and maqtu‘ (Followers') reports with full chains of transmission (isnad) . As preserved in historical manuscripts—such as the Ibn al-Naqib and Hyderabad copies—the text concludes with the chapter containing the prohibition against killing certain types of snakes .
Printed Editions
The work was edited by the Indian hadith scholar Habib al-Rahman al-A‘zami and published as volumes 10 and 11 within his edition of Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq by al-Majlis al-Ilmi in Pakistan and distributed by al-Maktab al-Islami in Beirut (first printed 1390 AH / 1970 CE; second edition 1403 AH) . In the second edition, the section was prefaced as Kitab al-Jami‘ li-l-Imam Ma‘mar ibn Rashid al-Azdi, Riwayat al-Imam Abd al-Razzaq al-San‘ani .
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