Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani

Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani (full name:, 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, 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 generally considered him unreliable.

Life
Of Sindhi ancestry, Abu Ma'shar was a freed slave from Yemen who lived in Medina. In 160 AH / 776 CE, he left Medina and settled in Baghdad, where he was close to members of the Abbasid court until his death in 170 AH / 787 CE.