Sirah & History
The life of the Prophet ﷺ and the witnesses to it.
Biographies of the Prophet ﷺ, his Companions, the early generations, and the great scholars of the Islamic tradition — narrated from the classical chronicles (Ibn Hishām, Ibn Saʿd, the histories of al-Ṭabarī and al-Dhahabī) and the major collections of biographical entries (tarājim).
Where a biography draws on hadith material, the chains and grades are noted in passing — but the goal here is the human shape of the tradition, not the muṣṭalaḥ analysis. For that, see Usul al-Hadith.
Articles & biographies
Name Abū ‘Abdullāh Muḥammad Ibn Ḥasan Ibn Farqad al-Shaybānī. The majority of scholars are of the view that Imām Muḥammad, …
ReadBiography12 October 2023Abdullah bin Uthman b. Amir b. Amr b. Ka’b b. Sa’d b. Taym[1], more commonly known as Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq. …
ReadBiography10 November 2018A biographical sketch of Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī (194–256 AH), compiler of the Ṣaḥīḥ — the most authenticated collection of hadith in the Sunni tradition.
ReadBiography3 March 2018