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He died in Mecca in 169 AH.\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Identity | Nafi' ibn Umar ibn Abd Allah ibn Jamil ibn Amir ibn Hudhaym ibn Salaman ibn Rabi'a ibn Sa'd ibn Jumah; al-Qurashi, al-Jumahi, al-Makki; kunya Abu M'ashr[1](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/5097) • [2](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857) |\n| Epithets | Al-Hafiz, al-Imam, al-Thabit in al-Dhahabi's Siyar A'lam al-Nubala'[1](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/5097) |\n| Death | Mecca, 169 AH per Ibn Sa'd, Sunnah.com, hadith.dev, and hdith.com[3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505) • [4](https://hadithtransmitters.hawramani.com/%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%b9-%d8%a8%d9%86-%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%b1/) |\n| Generation | Seventh tabaqa, counted among its senior members[2](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857) • [3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505) |\n| Corpus | 182 hadith in 187 isnads (hadith.dev); 62 indexed on Sunnah.com; 12 in Sahih al-Bukhari[3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505) • [2](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857) • [5](https://sahibukhari.com/narrators/nafi-bin-umar-al-jumhi) |\n| Leading grades | Ibn Hajar: thiqah thabit; Abu Hatim: thiqa, his hadith is adduced; Ibn Mahdi: among the most firm of people[2](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857) • [3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505) |\n| Dissent | Ibn Sa'd: thiqa, of few hadith, in which there is something (فيه شيء)[3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505) |\n\n## Identity and biographical outline\n\nAl-Dhahabi's *Siyar A'lam al-Nubala'* opens its entry (numbered 163 in the seventh generation) with the full genealogy running back to Jumah, the clan of Quraysh from which his nisba al-Jumahi derives, and titles him al-Hafiz, al-Imam, al-Thabit, al-Jumahi al-Makki[1](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/5097). Al-Mizzi's *Tahdhib al-Kamal* carries a dedicated entry for him under the letter nun with the same genealogy[6](https://shamela.ws/book/3722/15859). The databases record his kunya as Abu M'ashr and place his death in 169 AH[2](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857) • [3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505).\n\nHe was a Meccan, not a Kufan. The sources identify him uniformly as al-Makki, of the Jumah clan of Quraysh, and Ibn Sa'd's report states that he died in Mecca[1](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/5097) • [3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505) • [4](https://hadithtransmitters.hawramani.com/%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%b9-%d8%a8%d9%86-%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%b1/).\n\n## Teachers, students, and isnad position\n\nAl-Dhahabi lists his sheikhs as Ibn Abi Mulaika, Umayya ibn Safwan al-Jumahi, Bishr ibn Asim al-Thaqafi, Abd al-Malik ibn Abi Mahdhura, Amr ibn Dinar, Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaykh al-Sahmi, Sa'id ibn Hassan, and Sa'id ibn Abi Hind, noting that Sa'id ibn Abi Hind was his eldest sheikh[1](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/5097). The database Didn't He Say records 17 teachers in total[7](https://didnthesay.com/figures/narrators/nafi-ibn-umar-al-jumahi).\n\n**His students are a roll of the great transmitters.** [Al-Dhahabi](https://www.edgepedia.org/al-dhahabi) names Ibn al-Mubarak, Yahya al-Qattan, Abu Usama, Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi, Waki', Yazid ibn Harun, Muhammad ibn Bishr, Bishr ibn al-Sari, and Khalid ibn Yahya[1](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/5097); the databases add [Ahmad ibn Hanbal](https://www.edgepedia.org/ahmad-ibn-hanbal) among 44 students[7](https://didnthesay.com/figures/narrators/nafi-ibn-umar-al-jumahi). Hadith.dev states the reason they sought him out: they flocked to him for his precision (itqan) and the height of his isnads[3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505).\n\nHis isnad profile quantifies that height. Of his 187 recorded isnads, 6% are four-transmitter isnads, 26% five-transmitter, 29% six-transmitter, and 21% seven-transmitter; 64% of his isnads position him third from the compiler, with 7% second, 27% fourth, and 1% each fifth and sixth[3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505).\n\n## His narrations in the canonical collections\n\nHis material entered the canonical sunni collections. Sahih al-Bukhari contains 12 hadith from him[5](https://sahibukhari.com/narrators/nafi-bin-umar-al-jumhi), including the eclipse prayer narrated from Asma' bint Abi Bakr (hadith 745) and the verdict that the defendant must take an oath, narrated from Ibn Abi Mulaika (hadith 2668)[5](https://sahibukhari.com/narrators/nafi-bin-umar-al-jumhi). Sunnah.com indexes his narrations at Bukhari 6593, 2364, and 2668, Sunan Abi Dawud 505, and Sunan an-Nasa'i 5219[2](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857). A further narration on the handling of a morsel, chewed and snipped, was adduced by al-Bukhari through Ibn Abi Maryam as supporting evidence within the Sahih[8](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/120767).\n\nThe corpus counts differ across databases because each indexes a different body of literature: 62 hadith on Sunnah.com, 182 hadith in 187 isnads on hadith.dev, and 32 narrated reports on Didn't He Say[2](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857) • [3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505) • [7](https://didnthesay.com/figures/narrators/nafi-ibn-umar-al-jumahi). These are database coverage figures, not competing claims about how many hadith he transmitted in total.\n\n## Verdicts of the hadith critics\n\n**The positive verdicts dominate the record.** hadith.dev aggregates critic statements: 9 thiqa, 3 thabit, 3 thiqa with his hadith adduced as evidence, 2 among the most firm of people, plus [Ibn Hibban](https://www.edgepedia.org/ibn-hibban)'s inclusion of him in *al-Thiqat*[3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505) • [9](https://hdith.com/encyclopedia/rawi/p-6505). Ibn Hajar's *Taqrib* grades him thiqah thabit, and his *Hadi al-Sari* calls him one of the most firm, saying the imams relied on him[2](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857). [Abu Hatim al-Razi](https://www.edgepedia.org/abu-hatim-al-razi) graded him thiqa yuhtajj bi-hadithihi, reliable with his hadith adduced as evidence[2](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857). Ibn Mahdi said he was among the most firm of people, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal, when comparing him with a contemporary, said Nafi' ibn Umar is dearer to me than [Abd al-Jabbar](https://www.edgepedia.org/abd-al-jabbar) ibn al-Ward, and sounder in hadith[3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505).\n\nThe dissenting note is Ibn Sa'd's, preserved through Shihab ibn Abbad: he died in Mecca in the year 169 and was thiqa, of few hadith, in which there is something (فيه شيء)[3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505) • [4](https://hadithtransmitters.hawramani.com/%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%b9-%d8%a8%d9%86-%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%b1/). Ibn Hajar addressed this directly in *Hadi al-Sari*, questioning Ibn Sa'd's weakening because it relied on al-Waqidi, a narrator whose own reliability is contested[2](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857).\n\nThe general methodology for such conflicts is established in the jarh wa ta'dil literature. According to a 2024 peer-reviewed study of contradictory narrators' narrations, a controversial narrator's narration may be graded hasan li-zatihi (good in itself) under conditions noted by Ibn al-Qattan, [Ibn al-Salah](https://www.edgepedia.org/ibn-al-salah), and al-Dhahabi, and corroboration through multiple paths (tadaddud al-asanid) can raise it to sahih li-ghayrihi (authentic due to supporting chains)[10](https://www.al-azhaar.org/index.php/alazhar/article/download/529/398/949).\n\n## By the numbers: his place between the Successors and the compilers\n\nHis death in 169 AH came after the systematic-compilation stage dated below to 120 to 150 AH. The scholarly periodization divides early hadith writing into a tadwin (collection) stage from roughly 70 to 120 AH and a tasnif (systematic compilation) stage from 120 to 150 AH, in which Meccan compilers such as Abd al-Malik ibn Jurayj (d. 150/767) and Muhammad ibn Ishaq (d. 151/768) worked[11](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1250/2415626d395fffe6bea8066f1d0e3eac7e14.pdf). His students include Ibn al-Mubarak, Yahya al-Qattan, Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi, and Waki'[1](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/5097).\n\nThe isnad statistics make the bridge position concrete: with 64% of his 187 isnads placing him third from the compiler[3](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505).\n\n## References\n\n1. [Al-Dhahabi, Siyar A'lam al-Nubala', vol. 7, p. 433 (entry 163), ed. al-Risala, Shamela](https://shamela.ws/book/10906/5097)\n2. [Nafi` ibn `Umar al-Jumahi, Sunnah.com narrator entry](https://sunnah.com/narrator/7857)\n3. [نافع بن عمر بن عبد الله بن جميل الجمحي, hadith.dev narrator entry](https://hadith.dev/narrator/6505)\n4. [نافع بن عمر, The Hadith Transmitters Encyclopedia](https://hadithtransmitters.hawramani.com/%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%b9-%d8%a8%d9%86-%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%b1/)\n5. [Nafi' bin 'Umar al-Jumhi, Narrator in Sahih al-Bukhari](https://sahibukhari.com/narrators/nafi-bin-umar-al-jumhi)\n6. [Al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal, vol. 29, p. 287, ed. Basha Awwad Ma'ruf, Shamela](https://shamela.ws/book/3722/15859)\n7. [Nafi` ibn `Umar al-Jumahi, Didn't He Say](https://didnthesay.com/figures/narrators/nafi-ibn-umar-al-jumahi)\n8. [الأعلام: نافع بن عمر بن عبد الله بن جميل الجمحي, Arshif al-Islam](https://www.islamarchive.cc/a3lam/120767)\n9. [من هو نافع بن عمر الجمحي؟, hdith.com](https://hdith.com/encyclopedia/rawi/p-6505)\n10. [Haq Nawaz, The determination of contradictory narrators' narrations in the light of jarh o tadeel, Al-Azhar vol. 10 no. 1 (2024)](https://www.al-azhaar.org/index.php/alazhar/article/download/529/398/949)\n11. [Writing Down of Hadiths in the VII–VIII Centuries: Approaches and Methods](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1250/2415626d395fffe6bea8066f1d0e3eac7e14.pdf)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Society and history › Philosophy, religion, and mythology › Religion and spirituality › Religious biographies › Jewish, Islamic, and Dharmic religious leaders › Islamic religious leaders and scholars › Sunni imams and classical Islamic scholars › Hadith scholars and traditionists*\n\n*Initially written Oct 10, 2026 · Edited: Oct 11, 2026; Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/nafi-ibn-umar-al-jumahi", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/nafi-ibn-umar-al-jumahi.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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