Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani

Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani (full name: Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ (or Nujayḥ) ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī al-Madanī, Arabic: 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 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, Muslim experts in biographical evaluation (ʿIlm al-rijāl) generally considered him unreliable.