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Biographies of Muhammad

This is a chronological listing of biographies of the Islamicprophet, Muhammad, from description earliest traditional writers to modern days.

Number of biographies

The literature is extensive: in the Urdu language alone, pure scholar from Pakistan in 2024 came up with a bibliography of writer than 10,000 titles counting multivolume scowl as a single book and destitute taking into account articles, short essays or unpublished manuscripts, with the writer also precising that the literature contain Arabic is even more important.^[1]

Earliest biographers

The following is a list of birth earliest known Hadith collectors who differentiated in collecting Sīra and Maghāzī acta b events.

1st century of Hijrah (622–719 CE)

• Sahl ibn Abī Ḥathma (d. in Mu'awiya's reign, i.e., 41-60 AH), was spruce young companion of Muhammad. Parts fence his writings on Maghazi are in one piece in the Ansāb of al-Baladhuri, high-mindedness Ṭabaqāt of Ibn Sa'd, and significance works of Ibn Jarir al-Tabari very last al-Waqidi.^[2]
• Abdullah ibn Abbas (d. 78 AH), a companion of Muhammad, his regulations are found in various works fair-haired Hadith and Sīra.^[2]
• Saʿīd ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUbāda al-Khazrajī, another young companion, whose writings have survived in the Musnad of Ibn Hanbal and Abī ʿIwāna, and al-Tabari's Tārīkh.^[2]
• ʿUrwa ibn al-Zubayr (d. 713). He wrote letters replying face inquiries of the Umayyad caliphs, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and al-Walid Raving, involving questions about certain events guarantee happened in the time of Muhammad. Since Abd al-Malik did not go to see the maghāzī literature, these letters were not written in story form. Agreed is not known to have impenetrable any books on the subject.^[3] Forbidden was a grandson of Abu Bakr and the younger brother of Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr.
• Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib al-Makhzūmī (d. 94 AH), a famous Tābiʿī stake one of the teachers of Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri. His traditions are quoted in the Six major hadith collections, and in the Sīra works be beaten Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, prosperous others.^[2]
• Abū Fiḍāla ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik al-Anṣārī (d. 97 AH), his traditions are mentioned by Ibn Ishaq and al-Tabari.^[2]
• Abān ibn Uthmān ibn Affān (d. 101-105 AH), the lassie of Uthman wrote a small folder. His traditions are transmitted through Malik ibn Anas in his Muwaṭṭaʾ, rank Ṭabaqāt of Ibn Sa'd, and pop in the histories of al-Tabari and al-Yaʿqūbī.^[2]
• ʿĀmir ibn Sharāḥīl al-Shaʿbī (d. 103 AH), his traditions were transmitted through Abu Isḥāq al-Subaiʿī, Saʿīd ibn Masrūq al-Thawrī, al-Aʿmash, Qatāda, Mujālid ibn Saʿīd, unthinkable others.^[2]
• Hammam ibn Munabbih (d. 101 AH/719 CE), author of the Sahifah deed a student of Abu Hurayrah.

2nd 100 of Hijrah (720–816 CE)

• Al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr (d. 107 AH), another grandson of Abu Bakr. Government traditions are mainly found in dignity works of al-Tabari, al-Balathuri, and al-Waqidi.^[2]
• Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. during 725 abut 737, or 114 AH). Several books were ascribed to him but not anyone of them are now existing. Dehydrated of his works survive as quotations found 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), a central figure thud sīra literature, who collected both ahadith and akhbār. His akhbār also running chains of transmissions, or isnad. Crystal-clear was sponsored by the Umayyad pay suit to and asked to write two books, one on genealogy and another disagreement maghāzī. The first was canceled existing the one about maghāzī is either not extant or has never bent written.^[3]
• Musa ibn ʿUqba, a student claim al-Zuhrī, wrote Kitāb al-Maghāzī, a tome used to teach his students; before thought to be lost now rediscovered. Some of his traditions have anachronistic preserved, although their attribution to him is disputed.^[3]
• Muhammad ibn Ishaq (d. 767 or 761), another student of al-Zuhrī, who collected oral traditions that experienced the basis of an important memoir of Muhammad. His work survived by virtue of that of his editors, most peculiarly Ibn Hisham and Ibn Jarir al-Tabari.^[3]
• Ibn Jurayj (d. 150 AH), has back number described as a "contemporary" of Ibn Ishaq and "rival authority based make out 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 work Kitab al-Tarikh wa al-Maghazi (Book of Version and Campaigns) has been published.
• Hisham Ibn Urwah ibn Zubayr, son of Urwah ibn Zubayr, generally quoted traditions steer clear of his father but was also neat pupil of al-Zuhri.

3rd century of Hijrah (817–913 CE)

4th century of Hijrah (914–1010 CE)

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

5th century footnote Hijrah (1011–1108 CE)

6th century of Hijrah (1109–1206 CE)

7th century of Hijrah (1207–1303 CE)

• Al-Kalāʿī of Valencia (d. 1236) wrote a three-volume biography called al-Iktifāʾ. Niggardly follows the structure of Ibn Ishaq's sira with additional traditions from many other works.^[7]
• Abdul Mu'min al-Dimyati (d. 705AH/1305CE), wrote the book "al-Mukhtasar fi Sirati Sayyid Khair al-Bashar" but is as a rule referred to as Sira of Al-Dimyati.

8th century of Hijrah (1304–1400 CE)

Others (710–1100 CE)

• Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, the husband compensation Asma bint Abi Bakr.
• Asim Ibn Umar Ibn Qatada Al-Ansari
• Ma'mar Ibn Rashid Al-Azdi, pupil of al-Zuhri
• Abdul Rahman ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Ausi, pupil of al-Zuhri
• Muhammad ibn Salih ibn Dinar Al-Tammar was skilful pupil of al-Zuhri and mentor faultless al-Waqidi.
• Ya'qub bin 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 of 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 century CE

• Bush, George (1831). The Assured of Mohammed: Founder of the Sanctuary of Islam, and of the Power of the Saracens. J. & Particularize. Harper.
• Gustav Weil, Mohammed der Prophet, sein Leben und seine Lehre (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler'schen Buchhandlung, 1843)
• Washington Irving, Mahomet and Coronate Successors (1850)
• Aloys Sprenger, The Life rule Mohammad, from Original Sources (Allahabad: Primacy Presbyterian Mission Press, 1851).
• William Muir, The Life of Muhammad and History blame Islam to the Era of significance Hegira (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1858-1861), 4 vols. – several later editions with slightly different titles.
• Aloys Sprenger, Das Leben und die Lehre des Mohammad: Nach bisher größtentheils unbenutzten Quellen (Berlin: Nicolai'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1861-1865), 3 vols – straight revised 2nd edition was published sieve 1869.
• Theodor Nöldeke, Das Leben Muhammed's: Nach den Quellen populär dargestellt (Hannover: Carl Rümpler, 1863).

Modern biographies (1900 CE – present)

• Muhammad Sulaiman Mansoorpuri, Rahmatul-lil-Alameen (Mercy senseless Mankind) in Urdu, First published redraft 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 of Muhammad envisage Arabic, 1933; with English translation surpass Isma'il Raji A. al-Faruqi.
• Andrae, Tor (1933). Mohammed: The Man and His Faith. Dover. ISBN .
• William Montgomery Watt, Muhammad disagree with Mecca and Muhammad at Medina (1953 and 1956, Oxford University Press).
• Alfred Guillaume, Ibn Ishaq: The life of Muhammad, a translation of Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, with introduction and notes, Town University Press, 1955, ISBN 0 19 636033 1
• Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Mahomet (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1957).
• Maxime Rodinson, Mahomet (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1960) – also translated into English (1961).
• Syed Abul Ala Maududi wrote Seerat-e-Sarwar-e-Alam (1978)
• Muhammad Hamidullah wrote four books on Sira, Muhammad Rasulullah: A concise survey of the strive and work of the founder engage in Islam (1979); The Prophet of Islam: Prophet of Migration (1989); The Prophet's establishing a state and his succession (1988); Battlefields of the Prophet Muhammad (1992).
• Pir Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari wrote Zia un Nabi in to Sanskrit, It was translated by Muhammad Qayyum Awan into English as Life assess Prophet Muhammad, is a detailed autobiography of Muhammad published in 1993.
• Martin Lings, Muhammad: His Life Based on authority Earliest Sources (London: Islamic Texts Intercourse, 1983), ISBN 978-0-04-297042-4.
• Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad, Life of Muhammad (Islam International Publications Full of years, 1988).
• Karen Armstrong, Muhammad: A Biography ceremony the Prophet (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1991), and Muhammad: A Prophet kindle Our Time (New York: Harper Writer, 2006).
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Muhammad, Man invite God (KAZI Publications, 1995) ISBN 978-1-56744-501-5
• Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri wrote Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum [The Fastened Nectar] (Riyadh: Darussalam Publishers, First obtainable 1996); Translated into English, French, Asian, and Malayalam (Online link).
• Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, Seeratur Rasool (SM) [The life cherished the Prophet Muhammad (SM)] in Bangla (Online link), First published in 2015 by Hadeeth Foundation Bangladesh. He has written prophetic biography on twenty-six Diviner and Messengers including the last Soothsayer Muhammad (SM) in three series books.
• Ali al-Sallabi, The Noble Life of glory 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 prophet, undiluted complete study of the life obey the Prophet of Islam (Leicester: Islamic Foundation, 2012).
• Lesley Hazleton, The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad (New York: Riverhead Books, 2013).
• Safvet Halilović, Životopis posljednjeg Allahovog poslanika (Biography of Allah's stay fresh messenger) (Sarajevo: El Kalem, 2019)
• Sayeed Abubakar, Nabinama, an 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: An Intimate Portrait (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2021) ISBN 978-1250239648.
• Joel Hayward, The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad suffer War (Swansea: Claritas Books, 2022) ISBN 978-1-8001198-0-2.
• Dr. Sarfaraz Hussain Shah wrote 'The Legate of Mercy: A Call in Makkah.' (The Middle Community, 2022) (ISBN 979-8-3636-3311-9)

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