Publisher's Synopsis
This important work is a source-critical study of a group of traditions (aḥadith) found in Ibn Isḥaq's Biography (Sira) of the prophet Muḥammad, 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 Isḥaq relied on Muḥammad b. Abi Muḥammad, a hitherto undocumented source of his. Important new light is also shed on problems with Ibn Hisham's recension of Ibn Isḥaq's Sira.
