NMC273Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Quraysh, Tawhid, Predestination In Islam
10 Aug 2016
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Sources for the biography of the prophet. Hadith (sayings of or reports about the prophet or sometimes his. Companions) which together constitute the sunna (i. e. , example of the. 767), sirat rasul allah, edited by ibn hisham (d. 833) need to know his name biography of the prophet translated by alfred. Dion, useful but not great translation reads like collection of hadith. Al-waqidi (d. 823), kitab al-maghazi maghazi means battles or raids they are ahbar/reports khabir/news of campaigns of the prophet. Ibn sa"d (d. 845), kitab al-tabaqat al-kabir biographical dictionary of the prophet and of first two generations of muslims and cities with scholars. Popular form of biography of cities in later islamic writings great book of biographies. Early material preserved in later wrote a universal chronical and ibn hajar al-asaqalani preserved material from early information -kitaab al-aqhani by ibn a"fania al-ifahani ibn qutayba wrote kitaab al-ahbar. Prophet"s letter to the prophet of yrmama and there are christians knew him from.
