Ibn Hammad (historian)
Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥammād ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbī Bakr al-Ṣanhāj̲ī, known as Ibn Ḥammād () or Ibn Ḥamādu (1153/54–1230 / AH 548–628), was a medieval Berber qadi and historian, author of a chronicle on the Fatimid caliphs in the Maghreb, known as  ("account of the kings of the house of Ubaid and their deeds"), written in 1220 / AH 617. He was related to the Banu Hammad and a native of a village near their Qal'a. Editions
Histoires des Rois Obaidides, ed. and trans. M. Vanderyheiden, Paris, 1927. Akhbar muluk Bani Ubayd wa-siratuhum: Tahlil li-tarikh al-Dawlah al-Fatimiyah min khilal masdar turathi , Dar al-Ulum, 1981,

See also
Muslim conquest of the Maghreb

Notes

References
J. F. P. Hopkins, Nehemia Levtzion, Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history, Markus Wiener Publishers, 2000, , ., p. 154. 1150s births
1230 deaths
12th-century Berber people
13th-century Berber people
Berber historians
Hammadids
Sanhaja
13th-century historians of the medieval Islamic world