Hammad bin Zayd bin Dirham (Arabic: حماد بن زيد بن درهم (716–795)) was an Islamic scholar and jurisprudent from Basrah, Iraq.
[1] He was highly regarded for his knowledge and was considered to be on par with Imam Malik in terms of his scholarly contributions.
Hammad bin Zayd was known for his firm stance against the Jahmiyyah, a theological group that held controversial views about the nature of Allah.
[4] According to Ahmad Muhammad Shakir (d. 1958), a hadith scholar from Al-Azhar University, the most authentic asnād that came from Abu Hurayrah, one of them was:[5] In a hadis books Kitâbu’l-Mecrûhîn’, where Hammad criticized Amr ibn Ubayd, stating that Amr used to lie and fabricate Hadiths.
Scholars of hadith generally agree that Hamad ibn Zayd was a reliable narrator.