This important work is a source-critical study of a group of traditions (ahadith) found in Ibn Ishaq's Biography (Sira) of the prophet Muhammad, widely considered one of the most important early historical texts on the Prophet's life. Through a meticulous isnad-cum-matn analysis, the author reveals that Ibn Ishaq relied on Muhammad b. Abi Muhammad, a hitherto undocumented source of his. Important new light is also shed on problems with Ibn Hisham's recension of Ibn Ishaq's Sira.
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US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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978-1-4632-3736-3 (9781463237363)
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Introduction (1) I. The problem of sources on the life of the Prophet Muhammad (9) II. Source analysis (21) 1. A reaction of the Quraysh to Muhammad's rise (21) 2. Muhammad b. Abi Muhammad (35) 3. The profile of the source "Muhammad b. Abi Muhammad" (47) 4. Muhammad b. Abi Muhammad outside of the Sira sources (75) 5. Al-Kalbi's variants (100) 6. Muhammad b. Abi Muhammad's sources (115) III. Muhammad b. Abi Muhammad: a source for the historical vita of the Prophet? (121) IV. Excursus: Ibn Ishaq's exegetical traditions from Muhammad b. Abi Muhammad (129) Appendix: Isnads of the most important traditions (133) Bibliography (135)
