ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṣanʿānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Motzki, Harald
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. Hammām b. Nāfiʿ al-Ṣanʿānī , Abū Bakr al-Yamanī al-Ḥimyarī, was a Yemeni scholar who lived from 126/744 to the middle of Shawwāl 211/January 827. The nisba al-Ḥimyarī indicates that he was a mawlā of the Banū Ḥimyar, reportedly of Persian origin (min al-abnāʾ) . His father was also a learned man and traditionist. ʿAbd al-Razzāq received his training as a scholar in Ṣanʿāʾ, where he studied for about eight years with Maʿmar b. Rāshid (d. 153/770), himself a Basran