Abū ʿUrwa Maʿmar b. Rāshid (96-153/714-70) was a Persian client (mawlā) of the Ḥuddān clan of the Azd tribe who became a major early traditionist of Basra and, later, Ṣanʿāʾ. He appears as an important authority for the transmission of Prophetic traditions in all of the six canonical ḥadīth works of the Sunnīs. A widely travelled scholar, Maʿmar resided at various points in his life in southern Iraq, the Levant, the Ḥijāz, and (finally) Yemen. Maʿmar thus transmitted from a large number of early authorities who were