Abu Ma'shar Najih Al-Madani
Abu Maʿshar Najīḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī al-Madanī , 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.Life
Possibly of Indian parentage, Abu Ma'shar was a freed slave from Yemen who lived in Medina. In 160AH/776CE he left Medina and settled in Baghdad, where he was close to members of the Abbasid court until his death in 170AH/787CE.
