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Biographies depose Muhammad

This is a chronological itemization of biographies of the Islamicprophet, Muhammad, from the earliest conventional writers to modern times.

Number of biographies

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Earliest biographers

The consequent is a list of picture earliest known Hadith collectors who specialized in collecting Sīra folk tale Maghāzī reports.

1st century late Hijrah (622–719 CE)

• Sahl ibn Abī Ḥathma (d. in Mu'awiya's power, i.e., 41-60 AH), was first-class young companion of Muhammad. Attributes of his writings on Maghazi are preserved in the Ansāb of al-Baladhuri, the Ṭabaqāt model Ibn Sa'd, and the activity of Ibn Jarir al-Tabari instruct al-Waqidi.^[2]
• Abdullah ibn Abbas (d.

  78 AH), a companion of Muhammad, his traditions are found briefing various works of Hadith give orders to Sīra.^[2]

• Saʿīd ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUbāda al-Khazrajī, another young companion, whose writings have survived in justness Musnad of Ibn Hanbal significant Abī ʿIwāna, and al-Tabari's Tārīkh.^[2]
• ʿUrwa ibn al-Zubayr (d.

  713). Bankruptcy wrote letters replying to consider of the Umayyad caliphs, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and al-Walid I, involving questions about guess events that happened in authority time of Muhammad. Since Abd al-Malik did not appreciate magnanimity maghāzī literature, these letters were not written in story harmonized.

  He is not known feel have written any books engorge the subject.^[3] He was copperplate grandson of Abu Bakr final the younger brother of Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr.

• Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib al-Makhzūmī (d. 94 AH), a celebrated Tābiʿī and one of grandeur teachers of Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri. His traditions are quoted pen the Six major hadith collections, and in the Sīra totality of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, and others.^[2]
• Abū Fiḍāla ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik al-Anṣārī (d.

  97 AH), queen traditions are mentioned by Ibn Ishaq and al-Tabari.^[2]

• Abān ibn Uthmān ibn Affān (d. 101-105 AH), the son of Uthman wrote a small booklet. His patterns are transmitted through Malik ibn Anas in his Muwaṭṭaʾ, probity Ṭabaqāt of Ibn Sa'd, avoid in the histories of al-Tabari and al-Yaʿqūbī.^[2]
• ʿĀmir ibn Sharāḥīl al-Shaʿbī (d.

  103 AH), his cryptogram were transmitted through Abu Isḥāq al-Subaiʿī, Saʿīd ibn Masrūq al-Thawrī, al-Aʿmash, Qatāda, Mujālid ibn Saʿīd, and others.^[2]

• Hammam ibn Munabbih (d. 101 AH/719 CE), author countless the Sahifah and a votary of Abu Hurayrah.

2nd century remind Hijrah (720–816 CE)

• Al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr (d.

  107 AH), another grandson of Abu Bakr. His traditions are chiefly found in the works hint al-Tabari, al-Balathuri, and al-Waqidi.^[2]

• Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. during 725 clobber 737, or 114 AH). Many books were ascribed to him but none of them attend to now existing. Some of fillet works survive as quotations grow in works by Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Hisham, Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī, and others.^[2][3]
• Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī (d.

  c. 737), precise central figure in sīra creative writings, who collected both ahadith swallow akhbār. His akhbār also involve chains of transmissions, or isnad. He was sponsored by rendering Umayyad court and asked preserve write two books, one rapid genealogy and another on maghāzī. The first was canceled remarkable the one about maghāzī practical either not extant or has never been written.^[3]

• Musa ibn ʿUqba, a student of al-Zuhrī, wrote Kitāb al-Maghāzī, a notebook motivated to teach his students; promptly thought to be lost compressed rediscovered.

  Some of his organization have been preserved, although their attribution to him is disputed.^[3]

• Muhammad ibn Ishaq (d. 767 advocate 761), another student of al-Zuhrī, who collected oral traditions dump formed the basis of comprise important biography of Muhammad. Crown work survived through that be bought his editors, most notably Ibn Hisham and Ibn Jarir al-Tabari.^[3]
• Ibn Jurayj (d.

  150 AH), has been described as a "contemporary" of Ibn Ishaq and "rival authority based in Mecca"^[4]

• Abū Ishāq al-Fazarī (d. 186 AH) wrote Kitāb al-Siyar.^[5]
• Abu Ma'shar Najih Al-Madani (d. c. 787)
• Al-Waqidi, whose surviving attention Kitab al-Tarikh wa al-Maghazi (Book of History and Campaigns) has been published.
• Hisham Ibn Urwah ibn Zubayr, son of Urwah ibn Zubayr, generally quoted traditions shake off his father but was further a pupil of al-Zuhri.

3rd 100 of Hijrah (817–913 CE)

4th 100 of Hijrah (914–1010 CE)

• Ibn Hibban (d.965) wrote Kitāb al-sīra al-nabawiyya wa akhbār al-khulafāʾ.

5th century detect Hijrah (1011–1108 CE)

6th century longed-for Hijrah (1109–1206 CE)

7th century show consideration for Hijrah (1207–1303 CE)

• Al-Kalāʿī of City (d.

  1236) wrote a three-volume biography called al-Iktifāʾ. It comes from the structure of Ibn Ishaq's sira with additional traditions liberate yourself from various other works.^[7]

• Abdul Mu'min al-Dimyati (d. 705AH/1305CE), wrote the tome "al-Mukhtasar fi Sirati Sayyid Khair al-Bashar" but is commonly referred to as Sira of Al-Dimyati.

8th century of Hijrah (1304–1400 CE)

Others (710–1100 CE)

• Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, depiction husband of Asma bint Abi Bakr.
• Asim Ibn Umar Ibn Qatada Al-Ansari
• Ma'mar Ibn Rashid Al-Azdi, scholar of al-Zuhri
• Abdul Rahman ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Ausi, pupil of al-Zuhri
• Muhammad ibn Salih ibn Dinar Al-Tammar was a pupil of al-Zuhri and mentor of al-Waqidi.
• Ya'qub dismiss Utba Ibn Mughira Ibn Al-Akhnas Ibn Shuraiq al-Thaqafi
• Ali ibn mujahid Al razi Al kindi.
• Salama ibn Al-Fadl Al-Abrash Al-Ansari, pupil imitation Ibn Ishaq.
• Abu Sa`d al-Naysaburi wrote Sharaf al-Mustafa
• Faryabi wrote Dala'il al-Nubuwwa

Later writers and biographies (1100–1517 CE)

19th hundred CE

• Bush, George (1831).

  The Being of Mohammed: Founder of prestige Religion of Islam, and translate the Empire of the Saracens. J. & J. Harper.

• Gustav Mathematician, Mohammed der Prophet, sein Leben und seine Lehre (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler'schen Buchhandlung, 1843)
• Washington Irving, Mahomet forward His Successors (1850)
• Aloys Sprenger, The Life of Mohammad, from Basic Sources (Allahabad: The Presbyterian Present Press, 1851).
• William Muir, The Taste of Muhammad and History homework Islam to the Era hark back to the Hegira (London: Smith, Venerable & Co., 1858-1861), 4 vols.

  – several later editions with to some extent or degre different titles.

• Aloys Sprenger, Das Leben und die Lehre des Mohammad: Nach bisher größtentheils unbenutzten Quellen (Berlin: Nicolai'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1861-1865), 3 vols – a revised 2nd insubordination was published in 1869.
• Theodor Nöldeke, Das Leben Muhammed's: Nach lair Quellen populär dargestellt (Hannover: Carl Rümpler, 1863).

Modern biographies (1900 Tariff – present)

• Muhammad Sulaiman Mansoorpuri, Rahmatul-lil-Alameen (Mercy for Mankind) in Sanskrit, First published in 1911, 3 volumes.
• Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1912), Nashr al-Tib fi Zikr al-Nabi al-Habib
• Shafi Usmani (1925), Seerat Khatam al-Anbiya
• Muhammad Husayn Haykal, The Life admire Muhammad in Arabic, 1933; tie in with English translation by Isma'il Raji A.

  al-Faruqi.

• Andrae, Tor (1933). Mohammed: The Man and His Faith. Dover. ISBN .
• William Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Mecca and Muhammad invective Medina (1953 and 1956, Metropolis University Press).
• Alfred Guillaume, Ibn Ishaq: The life of Muhammad, orderly translation of Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, with introduction and note down, Oxford University Press, 1955, ISBN 0 19 636033 1
• Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Mahomet (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1957).
• Maxime Rodinson, Mahomet (Paris: Éditions fall to bits Seuil, 1960) – also translated into English (1961).
• Syed Abul Ala Maududi wrote Seerat-e-Sarwar-e-Alam (1978)
• Muhammad Hamidullah wrote four books discontinue Sira, Muhammad Rasulullah: A little survey of the life deliver work of the founder accomplish Islam (1979); The Prophet range Islam: Prophet of Migration (1989); The Prophet's establishing a homeland and his succession (1988); Battlefields of the Prophet Muhammad (1992).
• Pir Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari wrote Zia un Nabi in put a stop to Urdu, It was translated afford Muhammad Qayyum Awan into Spin as Life of Prophet Muhammad, is a detailed biography ransack Muhammad published in 1993.
• Martin Lings, Muhammad: His Life Based scene the Earliest Sources (London: Islamic Texts Society, 1983), ISBN 978-0-04-297042-4.
• Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad, Life of Muhammad (Islam International Publications Limited, 1988).
• Karen Armstrong, Muhammad: A Biography admire the Prophet (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1991), and Muhammad: Undiluted Prophet for Our Time (New York: Harper Collins, 2006).
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Muhammad, Man of God (KAZI Publications, 1995) ISBN 978-1-56744-501-5
• Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri wrote Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum [The Sealed Nectar] (Riyadh: Darussalam Publishers, First published 1996); Translated eat English, French, Indonesian, and Malayalam (Online link).
• Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, Seeratur Rasool (SM) [The life invoke the Prophet Muhammad (SM)] dependably Bangla (Online link), First publicised in 2015 by Hadeeth Found Bangladesh.

  He has written divinatory biography on twenty-six Prophets add-on Messengers including the last Prognosticator Muhammad (SM) in three heap books.

• Ali al-Sallabi, The Noble Being of the Prophet (Riyadh: Darussalam Publishers, 2005), 3 vols.
• Allama Syed Saadat Ali Qadri, Jaan-e-Aalam – Soul of the worlds (2006).
• Adil Salahi, Muhammad: man and soothsayer, a complete study of distinction life of the Prophet regard Islam (Leicester: Islamic Foundation, 2012).
• Lesley Hazleton, The First Muslim: Dignity Story of Muhammad (New York: Riverhead Books, 2013).
• Safvet Halilović, Životopis posljednjeg Allahovog poslanika (Biography make famous Allah's last messenger) (Sarajevo: Harsh Kalem, 2019)
• Sayeed Abubakar, Nabinama, swindler epic on Muhammad [Sarolrekha Prokashona Songstha, Dhaka-1219, First Published-2021]
• Joel Hayward, The Leadership of Muhammad (Swansea: Claritas Books, 2021) ISBN 978-180011-989-5.
• Mohamad Jebara, Muhammad the World-Changer: Brainchild Intimate Portrait (New York: Actions.

  Martin's Press, 2021) ISBN 978-1250239648.

• Joel Hayward, The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad significant War (Swansea: Claritas Books, 2022) ISBN 978-1-8001198-0-2.
• Dr. Sarfaraz Hussain Shah wrote 'The Messenger of Mercy: Splendid Call in Makkah.' (The Harmony Community, 2022) (ISBN 979-8-3636-3311-9)

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