Abu Ma'mar

Marwan ibn al-Hakam was an Umayyad political figure who served as governor of Medina and later as caliph of the Muslim world from 64 to 65 AH. He was the cousin of the third caliph Uthman ibn Affan and a prominent figure in Umayyad governance. He narrated hadiths that he received primarily from companions including Zayd ibn Thabit, Uthman ibn Affan, and other senior companions, may Allah be pleased with them. His narrations include reports on the prayer for the deceased, the rulings on prayer during times of fear, and various other matters of Islamic practice. In the hadith sciences, narrations through his chain are evaluated individually — his political controversies do not automatically affect the legal weight assigned to his hadiths, as scholars examined each narrator's reliability on its own merits. Several of his narrations appear in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim as part of broader chains. He died in Damascus in 65 AH.