List of biographies of Muhammad

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This is a chronological listing of biographies of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, from the earliest traditional writers to modern times.

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Number of biographies

The literature is extensive: in the Urdu language alone, a scholar from Pakistan in 2024 came up with a bibliography of more than 10,000 titles counting multivolume works as a single book and without taking into account articles, short essays or unpublished manuscripts, with the author also precising that the literature in Arabic is even more important. [1]

Earliest biographers

The following is a list of the earliest known Hadith collectors who specialized in collecting Sīra and Maghāzī reports.

1st century of Hijrah (622–719 CE)

2nd century of Hijrah (720–816 CE)

3rd century of Hijrah (817–913 CE)

4th century of Hijrah (914–1010 CE)

5th century of Hijrah (1011–1108 CE)

6th century of Hijrah (1109–1206 CE)

7th century of Hijrah (1207–1303 CE)

8th century of Hijrah (1304–1400 CE)

Others (710–1100 CE)

Later writers and biographies (1100–1517 CE)

19th century CE

Modern biographies (1900 CE – present)

Biographies missing date of publication

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Parekh, Rauf (14 October 2024). "Literary notes: New bibliography lists 10,000 Urdu books on seerat". Dawn News . Archived from the original on 8 November 2024.
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  5. ↑ Published from Lebanon, Beirut: Mu'assasa al-Risāla, 1987.
  6. ↑ Rosenthal, Franz, ed. (1985). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVIII: The Return of the Caliphate to Baghdad: The Caliphates of al-Muʿtaḍid, al-Muktafī and al-Muqtadir, A.D. 892–915/A.H. 279–302. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. p. xiv. ISBN   978-0-87395-876-9. According to al-Farghani [b. 282(895-6), d. 362(972-3], Tabari's work ended with the year 302. It was finished on Wednesday, Rabi II 26, 303 (Wednesday, November 8, 915).
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  8. ↑ Preamble to the book
  9. ↑ 40 Ahl-e Hadith Scholars from the Indian Subcontinent. Independently Published. 2019-07-18. pp. 224 تا 250. ISBN   978-1-0810-0895-6.
  10. ↑ "Allamah Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti".
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