Sharia law is one thing and the life of mohammed is something completely different. The life of muhammad, ibn hisham furman university. Alseerah alnabawiyyah li ibn hisham 4 volumes in 1 binding. The real name of seerat ibn e ishaq is seeratul rasool allah. Top american libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library. His crime was that he had thrown the entrails of a dead animal on muhammads back as he was praying, to the amusement of other meccans muslim 4422, ibn ishaqhisham 277. The original life of muhammad by ibn ishaq is now lost, however a version of the text by ibn hisham exists, and this is whats used by edward rehastek and a. I insisted that ibn ishaq was the first biographer of mohammed and all subsequent bios rely on ibn ishaq. Ibn ishaqs life of muhammad was in fact embedded in an ambitious universal history that covered the history of the world from the creation up to ibn ishaqs own time the abbasid caliphate. Translation of ibn ishaqs sirat rasul allah a guillaume isbn. The most widely discussed criticism of his sira was.
Ishaq aakhram complete ibn e abdullah novels reading. Abu muhammad abd almalik bin hisham ibn ayyub alhimyari almuafiri al ba. Ibn hishams asseera annabaviyya in the name of allah, the compassionate the merciful praise belongs to allah the lord of the worlds and may his blessing be upon our lord muhammad and his family, all of them the formula of blessing which follows every mention of the prophet is omitted hereafter. It is muhammad ibn ishaqs sirat rasul allah which is recognised as. Asseerah annabawiyyah li ibn hisham, arabic only kitaabun. But an annotated version by ibn hisham does exist and this is the version that alfred guillaume 18881966 used to write his book the life of muhammad. Ibn ishaq as narrated by ibn hisham, summarized by abdulsalam harun.
In what follows, page numbers in the text in parentheses refer to guillaumes translation. Much of the material used was left in the original words and in whole sections, so that ibn hisham s work can best be described as an edited version of the original biography, with interpolations by the. The status of ibn hisharns biography of the prophet pbuh t ndouhtediy. This book was written by ibn ishaq, a devout muslim scholar, and later revised by ibn hisham. It is reported in ibn hishams footnotes 804 that one of his crimes was that he abused the two daughters of makkah when they were leaving makkah. The first book illustrating life and works of muhammad s. He was also said to have mastered arabic philology in a way which only sibawayh had. Unfortunately, i believe the books of ibn ishaq were burned in a fire, and it was ibn hisham who had read them and reproduced them. Ibn ishaq was the earliest, and probably the most thorough, of islams historians. Albaka, a pupil of ibn ishaq, made two copies of the whole book, one of which must have reached ibn hisham d. This treatment of ibn ishaqs work was circulated to scholars in cordoba in islamic spain by around 864.
Ibn hisham also abbreviated, annotated, and sometimes altered the text of ibn ishaq, according to guillaume at p. We dont actually have a copy of ibn ishaqs sirat ul rasulullah. There were also several women that the prophet of islam ordered killed for adultery. What we have is an edited copy of his student albakkais version of it, which was further edited by hisham. Ibn ishaq nor al waqidi should have cited this man who must have had inside knowledge of many matters not known to the public. How authentic is ibn ishaqs biography of the prophet. Ibn ishaq abridgement of ibn hisham, alfred guillaume translator publisher. The most authoritative biography of muhammad is titled the life of muhammad sirat rasul allah originally written by muhammad ibn ishaq around 760 ad. Track my order s track my order s sign in register. Sirat ibn hisham abridged english translation attahawi. Novel ishaq aakhram by ibn e abdullah has been viewed by 98,666 times collectively sum of all epiosdes views. Professor guillaumes translation of the sira of ibn isshaq is now reissued. No copy of ibn ishaqs biography in its original form is now in existence, but it was extensively quarried by ibn hisharn died ah 2 or 218. Ihn ishaqs book was and will continue to be a major reference for readers of the prophets pbuh biography.
Traditionalists, in books on rijal hadith evaluations, have explicitly stated that ibn ishaq used to borrow from the jews stories concerning the battle of the prophet peace and blessings of allah be upon him. Other scholars, like ibn qayyim aljawziyya, made use of his chronological ordering of events. Ibn hisham makes no secret in the introduction to his book of the fact that he omitted some of the material ibn ishaq included that reflected negatively upon muhammads character. In the rest of the report, both tabari and ibn hisham have quoted it from ibn ishaq, but ibn ishaq does not name any narrator. The present life of muhammad is by the earliest biographer whose work has survived. The interesting passage here is found on 198 where 12 helpers are at a fair and they gave the apostle the pledge of women. Ibn ishaq was born in medina about eightyfive years after the hijra ah 85 and died in baghdad in ah 151. According to this source hisham had a brother who was one.
I ibn ishaq, he urwa bin zubayr was given to inserting poetry in his traditions and justified. Poonawala has collated altabarrs text with ibn hishams and discovered. Episode 01 episode 02 episode 03 episode 04 this urdu pdf book is. Abu muhammad abd almalik bin hisham ibn ayyub alhimyari arabic. Or huwairith ibn nukaidh ibn bujar ibn abd ibn kusai huwayrith ibn nafidh was another killed by the order of prophet muhammad p. Ibn ishaqs biography of muhammad is lost, but parts of it were used word for word at great length by ibn hisham and altabari in their works. The life of the prophet, the edited biography of islamic prophet muhammad saw written by ibn ishaq. Ibn ishaqhisham 458, also abu dawud 2686 other captives were ransomed, but uqba received special treatment because he had mocked muhammad at mecca. It is considered the most authentic biography of muhammad. Ibn ishaqs work is lost and is now only known in the recensions of ibn hisham and altabari.
Regarding altabaris narratives of muhammad, the translators state, the ealiest and most important of these sources was ibn ishaq, whose book on the prophet is usually known as the sirah. This was before the duty of making war was laid upon them. We also have bits and pieces that have survived from another students c. The disgraceful and distressing things omitted from ibn.
In the 20th century the book has been printed several times in the middle east. Professor guillaume is not merely offering a translation of the received text of the biography of muhammad, as recorded by ibn hisham from albakkai, from ibn ishaq. Possibly as a follower of ali he preferred to ignore the son of the man the alids regarded as a usurper 11 like i. No book can compare in comprehensiveness, arrangement, or systematic. In this abridgment, l tried to extract elements from the original work to present it in a new form that is allowed for uninterrupted reading, while being careful about the original text so the reader. It is an edited version of edward rehasteks translation of the life of muhammad, owned by the royal asiatic society, london. Most of the earliest works from the first prophetic biographers were lost, with the exception of. Youre right, it is well known that the sirah of ibn hisham is mainly weak, however it is a classical text that was used by historian and its a classical work. Traditionists, in books on rijal, have explicitly stated that ibn ishaq used to borrow from the jews stories concerning the battle of the prophet p.
Discussed here are ibn ishaq and his sirah, the various recensions of it, guillaumes translation, and ibn hisham. No copy of ibn ishaq s biography in its original form is now in existence, but it was extensively quarried by ibn hisharn died ah 2 or 218. Here you will find the sequence of events in muhammads life even the. Here we see the beginning of islam among the helpers.
Guillaume in his own transalation of ibn ishaqs book. Ibn ishaqs biography of muhammad countering islamism. Abu muhammad abd almalik bin hisham ibn ayyub alhimyari almuafiri alba. He never claimed that everything he heard was the perfect, absolute fact.
Alfred guillaumes authoritative translation of the sira of ibn ishaq presents in english the. Posts about by ibn ishaq written by kingslave of allah. Although most of the writers have written his name as hisham ibn hakam and they know him as the son of hakam, an inhabitant of kufa, in some of the books written by modern writers,1 the name of his father has been mentioned as yazid. The complete history of the life of prophet muhammad. To take ibn ishaqs biography in the recension of ibn hisham d. Full text of sirat ibn hisham biography of the prophet. According to donner, the material in ibn hisham and altabari is virtually the same. No classical scholar has ever considered the work of ibn ishaq. Ibn ishaqhisham 665muhammad ordered a jewish woman put to death for literally losing her mind while the male members of her family were being beheaded ibn ishaqhisham 691. You can take a printout to refer while reading in order to understand clearly. It was written before any of the major works of hadith. My main concern will be with the ideological conflict. This book was considered among pioneer book of biographies of prophet mohammad peace be upon him. This was written by mohammad bin ishaq, this was published in 8th century c.
No one plunged into the life of the prophet muhammad pbuh, without referring to ihn ishaq s book as a major source of information. The reign of hisham ibn abd almalik and the colla suny series in medieval middle east history. I told him if he doesnt trust guillaumes translation of the sira, why doesnt he seek out a translation made by someone he trusts. The part of ibn hishams work due to ibn ishaq is now usually called thesirat rasul allah life of allahs messenger. No copy of that book remains, but around 800 ad, ibn hisham, a student of ibn ishaq reconstructed the biography from fragments and notes that he had collected. A translation of ibn ishaqs sirat rasul allah oxford and karachi. Muhammad and the jews according to ibn ishaq wikisource. Interpolations made by ibn hisham are said to be recognizable and can be deleted, leaving as a remainder, a socalled edited version of ibn ishaq s original text otherwise lost. Theres at least one summary of ibn hishams book that i know of by the folio. Huwayrith ibn nafidh or nuqayth naqidh discover the. About the author abu muhammad abd almalik ibn hesham was born in basra.
1427 491 652 1398 786 115 1298 701 403 1370 1368 697 555 877 736 519 1122 126 691 1209 537 1635 640 1275 691 365 256 425 1349 781 1620 1225 897 751 1253 884 683 901 189 1246 663 1240 505 231 583 149