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Book Title: The Life Of The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ – Vol 2
Author: Imam Ibn Kathīr
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Garnet Pubishing
Published: 2020 New Edition

Format: [A5+] Paperback
Pages: 393
Length: 240mm
Width: 170mm
Depth: 28mm
Weight: 679g

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The Life Of The Prophet Mohammad ﷺ – Vol 2 Has been compiled in the fourteenth century AD by a prominent Syrian scholar, al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya is a full examination, in chronological order, of the background, life and mission of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Drawn from the earliest and most reliable Arabic sources, it offers the fullest available account of the historical circumstances and personalities most important in the founding of Islam. The quotations and anecdotes that constitute its core are evaluated in terms of the trustworthiness of their sources. Variant wordings that are related through differing lines of transmission are noted, and Ibn Kathīr gives both his own assessments and those of the earliest Islamic authorities concerning the likely authenticity of these records. The comments and conversations, derived from ancient texts, that are quoted in this work constitute the basis of our knowledge of Islam during the lifetime of its founder.

Volume II looks at the early years of the prophethood and includes such episodes as the Night Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and the ascent to Heaven, and the emigration to Medina. It gives details of events in the two years following the emigration, including the building of the Holy Mosque and various military expeditions, and reveals how Islam, as a faith, developed.

About the Author

Ibn Kathīr was born in approximately 1313 in the Boesra district of eastern Damascus, and studied with the many great scholars working in the city during his time. He died in 1374.

Trevor Le Gassick is Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Michigan. He has devoted himself to the translation and commentary of important works, both contemporary and from earlier eras, that reveal important aspects of the rich texture of Arabic literary culture.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• About the Series
• Muhammad bin Hamad Al-Thani Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization
• Introduction by Muneer Fareed
• Translator’s Preface

Volume II

• Chapter: Concerning the migration of those Companions of the Prophet (SAAS) who escaped from persecution with their faith from Mecca to Abyssinia.
  • Umar b. al-Khattab accepts Islam.

 

• AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISAGREEMENT OF THE QURAYSH TRIBES OF THE BANU HÄSHIM AND THE BANU ABD AL-MUTTALIB IN HELPING THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS). ALSO CONCERNING THEIR CONFINEMENT OF THEM IN THE QUARTER OF ABU TALIB FOR A LENGTHY PERIOD AND THEIR WRITING AN EVIL, BRAZEN DOCUMENT TO THAT EFFECT. AND THE SIGNS OF THE PROPHETHOOD AND PROOFS OF THE TRUTH THAT BECAME EVIDENT REGARDING ALL THIS.
  • Those who mocked.

 

• AN ACCOUNT OF THE DETERMINATION OF ABO BAKR, “THE TRUSTING’, TO EMIGRATE TO ABYSSINIA.
• The Story of Asha b. Qays.
• The Story of the contest with Rukana and how the Prophet (SAAS) showed him a tree that he summoned and it came to him.
• SECTION: CONCERNING THE ISRÄ’, THE NIGHT JOURNEY, OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) FROM MECCA TO JERUSALEM, HIS ASCENT FROM THERE TO HEAVEN, AND THE SIGNS HE SAW THERE.
• SECTION: CONCERNING THE SPLITTING OF THE MOON IN THE TIME OF THE PROPHET (SAAS).
• SECTION: THE DEATH OF ABO TALI, UNCLE OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS), AND THEREAFTER THAT OF KHADIJA, DAUGHTER OF KHUWAYLID, AND THE WIFE, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH HER, OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS).
• SECTION: ON HIS MARRIAGE AFTER THE DEATH OF KHADiJA, GOD BLESS HER, TO ‘APISHA, DAUGHTER OF ABO BAKR, AND TO SAWDA, DAUGHTER OF ZAM’A, GOD BLESS THEM BOTH.
• SECTION: ON HIS DEPARTURE TO THE PEOPLE OF TAPIF TO CALL THEM TO ALMIGHTY GOD, AND TO COME TO THE AID OF HIS FAITH; HOW THEY REFUSED HIM THIS AND HE RETURNED TO MECCA.
• SECTION: ON THE CALL OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) TO THE ARAB TRIBES DURING THE PILGRIMAGE SEASONS TO HELP AND SUPPORT HIM AGAINST THOSE PERSECUTING AND DENYING HIM. NONE OF THEM AGREED SINCE GOD ALMIGHTY HAD RESERVED THAT GREAT HONOUR TO THE ANSAR (THE “HELPERS” OR “PARTISANS”) OF MEDIA, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH THEM.

 

• AN ACCOUNT FROM SUWAYD B. SAMIT, THE ANSARI.
  • The acceptance of Islam by Iyas b. Muadh.
  • Chapter: The commencement of the acceptance of Islam by the ansar, the “Helpers” of Medina, God bless them.

 

• AN ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND MEETING AT AL-‘AQABA.
  • SECTION: THAT GIVES THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE SECOND MEETING AT AL-AQABA, THEIR NUMBER, ACCORDING TO IN ISHÃQ TOTALLING SEVENTY-THREE MEN AND TWO WOMEN.
• Chapter: The beginning of emigration from Mecca to Medina.
  • SECTION: ON THE CAUSE OF THE EMIGRATION OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS).
• Chapter: The emigration of the Messenger of God (SAAS) from Mecca to Medina accompanied by Abi Balr “the Trusting”, God be pleased with him.
  • The Story of Umm Mabad al-Khuzasiyya.
  • SECTION: ON THE ENTRY OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) INTO MEDIA, AND WHERE HE ESTABLISHED THEREIN HIS DWELLING, COMPRISING
  • MATTERS RELATED THERETO.

 

• THE EVENTS OF THE FIRST YEAR OF THE HEGIRA: AN ACCOUNT OF THE MAJOR EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS IN THE FIRST YEAR FOLLOWING THE EMIGRATION OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS).
  • SECTION: ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF ISLAM BY ‘ABD ALLAH B. SALAM, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH HIM.

 

• AN ACCOUNT OF THE SERMON OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) THAT DAY.
  • SECTION: ON THE BUILDING OF THE HOLY MOSQUE DURING THE PERIOD OF THE RESIDENCE OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) AT THE HOME OF ABO AYYOB, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH HIM.
    • Indications of the excellence of this noble mosque and this exalted place.
  • SECTION: ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE EMIGRANTS AND THE HELPERS THROUGH THE DOCUMENT HE HAD DRAWN UP BETWEEN THEM. ON THE NATURE OF THAT BROTHERLY RELATIONSHIP HE MADE BETWEEN THEM, AND ON THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS HE ESTABLISHED WITH THE TEWS WHO WERE IN MEDINA.
  • SECTION: ON THE ESTABLISHMENT BY THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) OF A PACT OF BROTHERHOOD BETWEEN THE EMIGRANTS AND THE HELPERS SO THAT THEY WOULD BE FRIENDS.
• Chapter: On the death of Abu Umama As ad b. Zurara.
• Chapter: On the birth of Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr in the month of Shawwal in the year when the emigration occurred.
• Chapter: On the call to prayer and its legitimacy upon the arrival of the Prophet (SAAS) in Medina.
• Chapter: On the expedition of Hamza b. Abd al-Muttalib, may God be pleased with him.
• Chapter: On the expedition of Ubayda b. al-Harith b. “Abd al-Multalib.

AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THE HEGIRA.

 

THE BOOK OF MILITARY EXPEDITIONS

• AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST MILITARY EXPEDITION, THAT OF AL-ABWÃ’, ALSO CALLED WADDÄN, AND THE FIRST OF THE DELEGATIONS SENT.
  • The expedition to Buma!, in the neighbourhood of Radma.
  • The expedition to al-Ushayra.
  • The first expedition to Badr.
• Chapter: On the expedition of Abd Allah b. Jahsh that was the cause for the great engagement at Badr.
  • SECTION: CONCERNING THE CHANGE IN THE PRAYER DIRECTION IN 2 AH BEFORE THE BATTLE OF BADR.
  • SECTION: ON THE INSTITUTION OF THE FASTING MONTH OF RAMADAN IN 2 AH. BEFORE THE BATTLE OF BADR.
    • The great battle of Badr; the day of the Furan, the differentiation between good and evil,
    • the day the two hosts met.
    • The death of Abu al-Bakhtari b. Hisham.
• Chapter: On the death of Umayya b. Khalaf.
  • The death of Abu Fahl, God damn him!
  • Hom the Prophet (SAAS) replaced Qatada’s eye.
  • Another similar account.

 

• AN ACCOUNT OF HOW THE HEADS OF THE UNBELIEVERS WERE THROWN INTO THE WELL AT THE BATTLE OF BADR.
  • The deaths of al-Nadr b. al-Harith and “Uqba b. Abu Mu’ayt, God damn them!

 

• AN ACCOUNT OF THE JOY OF THE NEGUS, GOD BLESS HIM, AT THE OUTCOME OF THE BATTLE OF BADR.
• Chapter: On the arrival of the news of those stricken at Badr to their families in Mecca.
  • The Names of those at Badr arranged alphabetically.
  • The letter alif.
  • The letter ba.
  • The letter ta.
  • The letter tha.
  • The letter jim.
  • The letter ha.
  • The letter kha.
  • The letter dhal.
  • The letter rit.
  • The letter zay.
  • The leller sin.
  • The letter shin.
  • The letter sad.
  • The letter dad.
  • The letter la.
  • The letter zi.
  • The letter ayn.
  • The letter ghayn.
  • The letter fa.
  • The letter gaf.
  • The letter kaf.
  • The letter mim.
  • The letter nin.
  • The letter ha.
  • The letter waw.
  • The letter ya.
  • Those men known by kunan’, agnomena.
• Chapter: On the excellence of those Muslims who were present at Badr.
  • On the arrival of Zaynab, daughter of the Messenger of God (SAAS), as an Emigrant from
  • Mecca to Medina a month after the battle of Badr in fulfillment of the condition placed upon
  • her husband by the Prophet (SAAS).
  • SECTION: VERSES COMPOSED ABOUT THE GLORIOUS BATTLE OF BADR.
  • SECTION: ON THE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE BAN SULAYM IN THE SECOND YEAR AFTER THE EMIGRATION OF THE PROPHET (SAAS).
  • SECTION: ON THE EXPEDITION AGAINST AL-SAWIQ IN DHO AL-HITTA THAT YEAR, IT ALSO BEING KNOWN AS THE EXPEDITION TO QARQARAT AL-KADR.
  • SECTION: ON THE MARRIAGE OF CALI B. ABO TALI, GOD BE PLEASED WITH HIM, TO HIS WIFE FATIMA, DAUGHTER OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS).
  • SECTION: REFERENCE TO A VARIETY OF EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN THE YEAR 2 AH
• Glossary
• Index

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