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Book Title: The Life Of The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ – Vol 4
Author: Imam Ibn Kathīr
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Garnet Pubishing
Published: 2020 New Edition

Format: [A5+] Paperback
Pages: 532
Length: 240mm
Width: 170mm
Depth: 37mm
Weight: 881g

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Compiled in the fourteenth century AD by a prominent Syrian scholar, Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya by In Kathir 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, in this English translation, the fullest available account of the historical circumstances and personalities most important in the founding of Islam. Ibn Kathir’s work offers a fine example of Islamic scholarship; 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 In Kathir 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 IV continues with the events of 9 AM and 10 AH, and presents the different accounts of the hajjat al-wada’ (the farewell pilgrimage) and the events surrounding the death of the Prophet Muhammad.

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 IV

• The Year 9 AH.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION TO TABOK IN RAJAB OF 9 AH.
  • Those who wept and also those who made excuses to remain behind.
• AN ACCOUNT OF HOW, ON HIS WAY TO TABOK, THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) PASSED BY THE DWELLINGS OF THAMUD AND THEIR family FORTIFICATIONS AT AL-HiJR.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADDRESS THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) GAVE AT TABOK AT A PALM TREE THERE.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRAYER SPOKEN FOR MUAWIYA B. ABO MUAWIYA IF INDEED AUTHENTIC.
  • The Arrival of the Messenger from Caesar to the Messenger of God (SAAS) at Tabuk.
  • The Peace Pact the Messenger of God (SAAS) made with the Governor of Ayla and the people of Farba and Adhruh while he was encamped at Tabuk, before his return.
  • The Dispatch by the Messenger of God (SAAS) of Khalid b. al-Walid to Ukaydir Duma.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE AL-DIRAR MOSQUE.
  • The Hadith of Kab b. Malik, may God be pleased with him, as quoted by al-Bukhari, may God have mercy upon him.
  • Reference to disobedient persons other than those who had remained behind.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS AFTER THE RETURN OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) FROM TABOK TO MEDINA.
  • The Arrival of a Delegation from Thagif to the Messenger of God (SAAS) in Ramadan of 9 AH.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF ABD ALLAH B. UBAYY, MAY GOD FIND HIM REPULSIVE!
  • The Dispatch by the Messenger of God (SAAS) of Abu Bakr, ‘The Trusting command of the Pilgrimage in the year 9 AH and the revelation of Sürat Bara’a
    (i.e. al-Tamba; IX).
  • Events that occurred in that year, 9 AH during Rajab of which the expedition to Tabuk took place.
• 
  THE BOOK OF DELEGATIONS THAT CAME TO THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS)
• Chapter: On the excellence of Banu Tamim.
  • The Delegation from Banu Abd al-Qays.
  • The Story of Thumama and the delegation from Banu Llanifa, among whom was Musaylima, “The Impostor’, may God damn him!
  • The Delegation from the people of Najran.
  • The Delegation of Bann Amir and the story of Amir b. al-Tufayl and Arbad b.
  • Qays, may God damn them both!
  • The Arrival of Dimam b. Tha’laba to see the Messenger of God (SAAS), on behalf of his tribe of Banu Sad b. Bakr.
  • The Delegation of Tai with ‘Zayd of the Horses’ may God be pleased with him.
  • The Story of “Adi b. Hatim al-Tai.
  • The Delegation of Farma b. Musayk al-Muradi, one of his people’s leaders, to the
  • Messenger of God (SAAS).
  • The Arrival of “Amr b. Madi Karib with persons from (Ban) Zabid.
  • The Arrival of al-Ash’ath b. Qays in a Delegation from Kinda.
  • The Arrival of Asha b. Mazin to the Prophet (SAAS).
  • The Arrival of Surad b. ‘Abd Allah al-Azdi among some men of his tribe, and then after them the delegation of the people of Jurash.
  • The Arrival of a Messenger from the Kings of Himyar to the Messenger of God (SAAS).
  • The Arrival of Farir b. Abd Allah al-Bajali and his acceptance of Islam.
  • The Arrival to the Messenger of God (SAAS), of Wail b. Flujr b. Rabia b.
  • Wail b. Yamur al-Hadrami b. Hunayda, one of the Kings of Yemen.
  • The Arrival of Laqit b. Amir al-Muntafig b. Abu Razin al-Aqili to the Messenger of God (SAAS).
  • The Arrival of Ziyad b. al-Harith al-Sudai, may God be pleased with him.
  • The Arrival of al-Harith b. Hassan Al-Bakri to the Messenger of God (SAAS).
  • The Arrival of Abd al-Rahman b. Abu ‘Ugayl, with his people.
  • The Arrival of Tariq b. Abd Allah and his companions.
  • The Arrival of the Delegate from Farma b. “Amr al-Fudhami, the Ruler of the Lands of Mu an, bringing news of his acceptance of Islam to the Messenger of God (SAAS).
  • The Arrival of Tamim al-Dari to the Messenger of God (SAAS), and his informing him about al-Fassasa and about what he heard from al-Dajjal, “The Imposter,’ concerning the mission of the Prophet and the faith of those believing in him.
  • The Delegation from Banu Asad.
  • The Delegation from Banu Abs.
  • The Delegation from Banu Fazara.
  • The Delegation from Banu Murra.
  • The Delegation from Banu Thalaba.
  • The Delegation from Banu Muharib.
  • The Delegation from Ban Kilab.
  • The Delegation from Banù Ru as b. Kilab.
  • The Delegation from Banu Agil b. Ka’b.
  • The Delegation from Banù Qushayr b. Ka’b.
  • The Delegation from Banu al-Bakka.
  • The Delegation from Kinana.
  • The Delegation from Ahsja”.
  • The Delegation from Bahila.
  • The Delegation from Ban Sulaym.
  • The Delegation from Ban Hilal b, ‘Amir.
  • The Delegation of Banu Bakr b. Wail.
  • The Delegation from Taghlib.
  • Delegations from the people of Yemen.
  • The Delegation from Khawlan.
  • The Delegation from Fufi.
  • SECTION: ON THE ARRIVAL OF THE DELEGATION BAN AZD TO THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS).
  • The Delegation from Kinda.
  • The Delegation of Al-Sadif.
  • The Delegation from Kushayn.
  • The Delegation of Al-Siba.
  • The Year 10 AH.
• Chapter: On the dispatch by the Messenger of God (SAAS) of Khalid b. al-Walid.
• The dispatch by the Messenger of God (SAAS) of the commanders to the people of Yemen, inviting them to God, Almighty and Glorious is He, came prior to the hijjat al-wada.
• Chapter on the dispatch by the Messenger of God (SAAS) of “Ali b. Abu Talib and Khalid b. al-Walid to Yemen, before hijjat al-wada, ‘The Farewell Pilgrimage’.
• BOOK ON THE HIJJAT AL-WADAS THE FAREWELL PILGRIMAGE’, IN 10 AH.
• Chapter: Information on the fact that the Prophet (SAAS), made only one full pilgrimage from Medina, having previously departed for three umra, lesser’, pilgrimages.
• Chapter: On the date of the departure of the Prophet (SAAS), from Medina on the hijjat al-wada.
• Chapter: A description of the departure of the Messenger of God (SAAS), from Medina to Mecca for the pilgrimage.
• Chapter: the place from which the Prophet (SAAS) recited the talbiyya; the differing views on this expressed by the sources. And the likely truth regarding this
  • Reference to those who state that the Prophet (SAAS) adopted the Ihram from the Mosque at Dhu al-Hulayfa after the Prayer.
• Chapter: On a discussion and examination of how the Prophet (SAAS) performed the pilgrimage, whether as the hajj al-ifrad, the al-tamattu, or the al-giran.
• ACCOUNTS INDICATING THAT THE PROPHET (SAAS) PERFORMED THE HAJJ AL-IFRAD.
• ACCOUNT OF JABIR B. ‘ABD ALLAH SUPPORTING HIS HAVING PERFORMED THE HAJJ AL-IFRAD.
• THE ACCOUNT OF ABD ALLAH B. MAR REGARDING THE HAJJ AL-IFRAD.
• THE ACCOUNT OF IN ‘ABBAS FOR THE HAJJ AL-IFRAD.
  • Reference to those who state that the Prophet (SAAS) performed the hajj al-Tamattu.
• ACCOUNTS OF THE PILGRIMAGE AS NARRATED BY THOSE WHO MAINTAIN THAT THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) PERFORMED THE HAJJ AL-QIRAN, ALONG WITH THE RELEVANT AHADITH.
• THE ACCOUNT OF THE COMMANDER OF THE BELIEVERS, UMAR B. AL-KHATTAB, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH HIM.
• AN ACCOUNT RELATING TO THE TWO COMMANDERS OF THE BELIEVERS, UTHMAN AND SAL, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH THEM BOTH.
• THE ACCOUNT OF ANAS B. MALIK, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH HIM.
  • Bakr b. Abd Allah al-Muzani.
  • Thabit al-Bunani.
  • Humayd b. Tiruwayh al-Tawil.
  • Humayd b. Hilal al-Adami al-Basri.
  • From Zayd b. Aslam.
  • From Salim b. Abu al-Ja’d al-Ghat Afani al-Kufi.
  • From Sulayman b. Tarkhan al-Taymi.
  • From Sumayd b. Hujayr.
  • From “Abd Allah b. Zayd Abu Qilaba al-Farmi.
  • From Abd al-“Aziz b. Suhayb.
  • From “Ali b. Zayd b. Jud’an.
  • From Oatada b. Daama al-Sadusi.
  • From Musab b. Sulaym al-Zubayri, their freed-man
  • From Yahya b. Ishaq al-Hadrami.
  • From Abu Asma al-Saygal.
  • From Abu Qudama al-Hanafi; his name is also given as Muhammad b. Ubayd
  • The Hadith of al-Bara b. Azib on the hajj al-Qiran.
• THE ACCOUNT OF JABIR B. ABD ALLAH, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH HIM.
  • A different line of transmission from Jabir.
• THE ACCOUNT OF ABO TALHA ZAYD B. SAHL AL-ANSARi, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH HIM.
• THE ACCOUNT OF SURAQA B. MALIK B. JUSHUM.
• THE ACCOUNT OF SAD B. ABO WAOQAS FROM THE PROPHET (SAAS), TO THE EFFECT THAT HE PERFORMED THE HAI WITH THE UMRA, THIS CONSTITUTING THE HAJJ AL-QIRAN.
• THE ACCOUNT OF ‘ABD ALLAH B. ABO AWFA.
• THE ACCOUNT OF ABD ALLAH B. ‘ABBAS ON THIS SUBJECT.
• THE ACCOUNT OF ‘ABD ALLAH, SON OF UMAR, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH THEM BOTH.
• THE ACCOUNT OF IMRAN B. HUSAYN, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH HIM.
• THE ACCOUNT OF AL-HIRMAS B. ZIYAD AL-BAFILI.
• THE ACCOUNT OF HAFSA, DAUGHTER OF UMAR, ‘THE MOTHER OF THE BELIEVERS’, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH HER.
• THE ACCOUNT OF AISHA, ‘THE MOTHER OF THE BELIEVERS’, MAY GOD BE PLEASED WITH HER.
• ACCOUNTS SUBSTANTIATING THOSE STATING THAT THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) ANNOUNCED THE STATE OF IHRAM AND DID NOT INITIALLY SPECIFY A HAJJ OR AN UMRA, AND THEN THEREAFTER RENDERED IT SPECIFIC.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECITATION OF THE TALBIYYA MADE BY THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS).
  • The Hadith of Jabir B. Abd Allah, may God be pleased with him, on the hijja of the Messenger of God (SAAS).
• AN ACCOUNT OF THOSE PLACES IN WHICH THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) PRAYED WHILE TRAVELLING FROM MEDINA TO MECCA ON HIS UMRA AND HIS HAJJ.
• Chapter: The entry of the Prophet (SAAS) into Mecca, may God the Almighty and Glorious, honour it well.
  • Descriptions of the Circumambulations made by the Messenger of God (SAAS).
• AN ACCOUNT OF HOW THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) JOGGED AND MOVED AT A FAST PACE ON HIS CIRCUMAMBULATION AND THE IDTIBAS TUCKING UP ONE’S GOWN UNDER THE RIGHT ARM’.
• ACCOUNTS OF THE CIRCUMAMBULATION OF THE PROPHET (SAAS) BETWEEN AL-SAFA AND AL-MARWA.
• Chapter: Those parts of the prayer delivered by the Messenger of God (SAAS), while he stood upon Mt. Arafat that are recorded.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE SUBLIME REVELATION AT THAT HONOURED STATION.
• ACCOUNTS OF THE PASSAGE OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS), FROM
• ARAFAT TO THE MASH’AR AL-HARAM.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECITATION BY THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS), OF THE TALBIYYA AT AL-MUZDALIFA.
• Chapter: On the wuquf (station) of the Messenger of God (SAAS), at the mash’ar al-haram, his daf’ (departure) from al-Muzdalifa before sunrise and his iyda (passage forth) into Wadi Muhassir.
• ACCOUNTS OF THE CASTING BY THE PROPHET (SAAS) OF STONES ONLY AT THE PILLAR AT AL-AQABA ON THE DAY OF THE SACRIFICE. HOW HE CAST THEM AND WHEN. AND FROM WHAT POSITION HE CAST THEM, AND HOW MANY THEY WERE. ALSO, HIS CESSATION OF RECITATION OF THE TALBIYYA WHEN HE CAST THEM.
  • Descriptions of the Prophet (SAAS) shaving his head.
• ACCOUNTS OF THE VISIT OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) TO THE ANCIENT KABA.
• Chapter: Ahadith showing that the Prophet (SAAS) made an address to the people on the second, the middle that is, day of the ayyam al-tashriq.
  • References to a hadith in which it is stated that the Messenger of God (SAAS) would visit the Ka’ba every night of those at Mina.
  • The Year 11 AH.
  • The Dispatch of Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Amf to Dumat al-Fandal.
  • The verses in the Our an and ahadith forewarning of the death of the Messenger of God (SAAS), and how the illness from which he died commenced.
  • The ahadith making reference to that.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORDER BY THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS), TO ABO BAKR, ‘THE TRUSTING’, TO LEAD THE PRAYER WITH ALL THE COMPANIONS, IN THE PRESENCE OF THEM ALL. AND HOW THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) CAME OUT AND PRAYED BEHIND HIM, EMULATING HIM IN SOME OF THE PRAYERS, AS WE SHALL RELATE, AND HOW THE LATTER ACTED AS IMAM FOR THE FORMER AND FOR THOSE OF THE COMPANIONS AFTER HIM.
  • The manner of his dying, and his actual death.
  • SECTION: AN ACCOUNT OF IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT OCCURRED AFTER THE DEATH OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS), AND BEFORE HIS BURIAL.
  • The Story of the hall of Banu Saida.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECOGNITION BY SAD B. UBADA OF THE TRUTH OF WHAT
• ABU BAKR STATED THAT DAY IN THE HALL.
  • SECTION: ACCOUNTS OF THE TIME AT WHICH THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) DIED, HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH, HOW HE WAS WASHED, PLACED IN A SHROUD AND BURIED, AND THE SITE OF HIS GRAVE.
  • Descriptions of how the Prophet (SAAS) was washed (prior to his burial).
  • Description of the shroud of the Messenger of God (SAAS).
  • The manner in which prayers were offered over the Messenger of God (SAAS).
  • Descriptions of the burial of the Messenger of God (SAAS), and where he was
  • buried. Reference to the differences over whether he was buried by night or by day.
• ACCOUNTS OF WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON TO BE WITH THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS).
  • When the burial of the Messenger of God (SAAS) took place.
  • SECTION: ON THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE GRAVE OF THE PROPHET (SAAS).
• ACCOUNTS OF THE GREAT AFFLICTIONS THAT BEFELL THE MUSLIMS UPON THE DEATH OF THE PROPHET (SAAS).
  • Reference to the expressions of consolation made regarding the death of the Messenger of God (SAAS).
  • SECTION: NARRATIVES TELLING OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF “THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK’ (THE CHRISTIANS AND THE JEWS) OF THE DEATH OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS).
• Chapter: Information showing that the Prophet (SAAS) did not leave a dinar, a dirham, a slave, a slave-girl, a sheep, a camel, nor anything to be inherited from him – except for land, all of which he left as a charitable offering to God, the Almighty and Glorious.
• Chapter: Evidence to the Prophet (SAAS) having said, ‘We will not leave (property for) inheritance’.
  • Discussion of the narration from various authorities concerning the statement made by Abu Bakr and their agreement upon this.
• Chapter: An Account of the wives and children, may God be pleased with them all, of the Prophet (SAAS).
  • Women to whom the Messenger of God (SAAS) became engaged but did not ultimately marry.
• ACCOUNTS OF THOSE PERSONS AWARDED TO THE MESSENGER OF GOD (SAAS) AS TRIBUTE.
  • Information concerning his children, may prayers and peace be for them all.
• Chapter: Material concerning the slaves, male and female, of the Messenger of God (SAAS), his servants, scribes and clerks.
  • The Women servants of the Messenger of God (SAAS).
• Chapter: On those of the Companions of the Messenger of God (SAAS), who acted as his servants, but who were not freed-men.
• Chapter: Those, may God be pleased with them, who wrote down the revelations and other matters in the presence of the Messenger of God (SAAS).
• Chapter: Information relating to the clothing, weapons, mounts and personal effects that the Prophet (SAAS) used during his life.
  • The sword of the Messenger of God (SAAS).
  • Concerning the sandals worn by the Prophet (SAAS).
  • Descriptions of the drinking cup used by the Prophet (SAAS).
• ACCOUNTS OF THE ANTIMONY CASE USED BY THE PROPHET (SAAS).
  • The Cloak (Al-Burda).
  • Reference to the horses and other mounts used by the Prophet (SAAS).
• Glossary
• Index

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