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- Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Life in time
Overview
Hammad ibn Usama, Abu Usama of Kufa, a client of the Banu Hashim, was a memoriser described by al-Dhahabi as "the leading memoriser and proof". He transmitted from Hisham ibn 'Urwa, Yazid ibn 'Abdallah, Bahz ibn Hakim, al-A'mash and al-Jariri and their peers, and died in Dhu al-Qa'da 201 AH. 1
Memory
Ahmad ibn Hanbal said he was the most knowledgeable of men in the affairs and reports of Kufa; from Hisham alone he kept six hundred hadiths, and it is reported of him that he said "I wrote a hundred thousand hadiths with these two fingers". Al-Dhahabi concluded that the community received Abu Usama's hadith with acceptance for his memory and his piety. 1
Students
'Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, 'Ali ibn al-Madini, Ahmad al-Dawraqi, Salama ibn Shabib, Muhammad ibn 'Abdallah al-Makhzumi and many others narrated from him. 1
Sources
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.2 p.299
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Hammad ibn Usama”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hammad-ibn-usama/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.