Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥammād ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbī Bakr al-Ṣanhāj̲ī, known as Ibn Ḥammād (
Arabic: ابن حماد) or Ibn Ḥamādu (1153/54–1230 /
AH 548–628), was a medieval
Berberqadi and
historian,[1][2] author of a chronicle on the
Fatimid caliphs in the
Maghreb, known as Akhbar muluk bani Ubayd wa-siratuhum ("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.[2]
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,
ISBN978-977-286-267-2