This article is about the historian. For the grammarian, see Ibn Abi Ishaq.
For the physician, see Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Ibn Ishaq
ٱبْن إِسْحَاق
Title
Ṣāḥib al-Sīra
Personal
Born
c. 704 (85 AH)
Medina, Umayyad Caliphate
Died
c. 767 (150 AH)
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Religion
Islam
Era
Islamic golden age
Region
Middle East
Main interest(s)
Prophetic biography
Notable work(s)
al-Sira al-nabawiyya ('Life of the Prophet')
Teachers
Al-Bakka'i
Salama ibn al-Fadl
Muslim leader
Students
Al-Bakka'i
Salama ibn al-Fadl
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi (Arabic: أَبُو عَبْدُ ٱلله مُحَمَّد ٱبْن إِسْحَاق ٱبْن يَسَار ٱلْمُطَّلِبيّ, romanized: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʾIsḥāq ibn Yasār al-Muṭṭalibī; c. 704–767), known simply as Ibn Ishaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer. Ibn Ishaq, also known by the title ṣāḥib al-sīra, collected oral traditions that formed the basis of an important biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Muḥammad ibn ʾIsḥāqibn Yasār al-Muṭṭalibī; c. 704–767), known simply as IbnIshaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer. IbnIshaq, also known...
Hunayn ibnIshaq al-Ibadi (also Hunain or Hunein) (Arabic: أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ʾAbū Zayd Ḥunayn ibnʾIsḥāq al-ʿIbādī (808–873) was an influential...
Yaqub ibnIshaqibn Ibrahim (Arabic: يَعْقُوب ابْنُ إِسْحَٰق ابْنُ إِبْرَاهِيم, transl. Jacob, son of Isaac, the son of Abraham), later given the name...
type of monotheists) mentioned by IbnIshaq, the others being Waraqa ibn Nawfal, Uthman ibn al-Huwayrith and Zayd ibn Amr. When Ubeydullah bin Jahsh died...
escape the torture of the Meccans at the time, it is reported by ibn Saad and IbnIshaq that Ammar went to Abyssinia in 616. 'Ammar was one of the few warriors...
modifying IbnIshaq's account of the Saqifa affair, which is thus a report written by a Shia author and approved by a Sunni editor-critic. IbnIshaq's account...
most genealogists reject this version.[citation needed] According to IbnIshaq, Fihr defended Mecca against the Himyarite King of Yemen who wanted to...
written sira (biographies of Muhammad and quotes attributed to him) is IbnIshaq's Life of God's Messenger written c. 767 CE (150 AH). Although the original...
story of Asma bint Marwan and her death appears in the works of both IbnIshaq and Ibn Sa'd. According to these accounts, her family viewed Muhammad and...
IbnIshaq/Guillaume p. 159. IbnIshaq/Guillaume p. 191. IbnIshaq/Guillaume pp. 194-195. "Abū Lahab - w3we". IbnIshaq/Guillaume p. 291. IbnIshaq/Guillaume...
recension of IbnIsḥāq's classic Sīratu Rasūli l-Lāh (سيرة رسول الله) 'The Life of God's Messenger'. IbnIsḥāq's now lost work survives only in Ibn Hishām's...
Ibn Saad/Bewley p. 25. Tabari/Landau-Tasseron p. 162. IbnIshaq/Guillaume p. 146. IbnIshaq/Guillaume p. 168. Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti. Tarikh al-Khulafa...
Ishaqibn Rahuyah (Arabic: إسحاق بن رَاهَوَيْه/رَاهُوْيَه, romanized: Isḥāqibn Rāhūyah/Rāhawayh; b. 161 AH - d. 238 AH / b. 777 CE - d. 852 CE) was a...
ISBN 978-1-939681-05-8. IbnIshaq/Guillaume pp. 146, 314. Ibn Saad/Bewley p. 25. Tabari/Landau-Tasseron p. 162. IbnIshaq/Guillaume p. 146. IbnIshaq/Guillaume p...
An account of the sermon was collected by the early historian IbnIshaq, as quoted in Ibn Hisham's Sirah an-Nabawiyah and at-Tabari's Tarikh, with minor...
for the presence of predictions of Muhammad in the Bible were made by IbnIshaq in his Book of Military Expeditions (Kitāb al-maghāzī). A number of Christians...
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