His akhbār also contain chains of transmissions, or isnad. 737), a central figure in sīra literature, who collected both ahadith and akhbār. Some of his works survive as quotations found in works by Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Hisham, Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī, and others. Several books were ascribed to him but none of them are now existing. His traditions are mainly found in the works of al-Tabari, al-Balathuri, and al-Waqidi.

Al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr (d.101 AH/719 CE), author of the Sahifah and a student of Abu Hurayrah.Ģnd century of Hijra (720–816 CE) 103 AH), his traditions were transmitted through Abu Isḥāq al-Subaiʿī, Saʿīd ibn Masrūq al-Thawrī, al-Aʿmash, Qatāda, Mujālid ibn Saʿīd, and others. His traditions are transmitted through Malik ibn Anas in his Muwaṭṭaʾ, the Ṭabaqāt of Ibn Sa'd, and in the histories of al-Tabari and al-Yaʿqūbī. 101-105 AH), the son of Uthman wrote a small booklet. 97 AH), his traditions are mentioned by Ibn Ishaq and al-Tabari. Abū Fiḍāla ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik al-Anṣārī (d.His traditions are quoted in the Six major hadith collections, and in the Sīra works of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, and others. 94 AH), a famous Tābiʿī and one of the teachers of Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri. He was a grandson of Abu Bakr and the younger brother of Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr. He is not known to have written any books on the subject. Since Abd al-Malik did not appreciate the maghāzī literature, these letters were not written in story form. He wrote letters replying to inquiries of the Umayyad caliphs, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and al-Walid I, involving questions about certain events that happened in the time of Muhammad. Saʿīd ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUbāda al-Khazrajī, another young companion, whose writings have survived in the Musnad of Ibn Hanbal and Abī ʿIwāna, and al-Tabari's Tārīkh.78 AH), a companion of Muhammad, his traditions are found in various works of Hadith and Sīra. Parts of his writings on Maghazi are preserved in the Ansāb of al-Baladhuri, the Ṭabaqāt of Ibn Sa'd, and the works of Ibn Jarir al-Tabari and al-Waqidi.

in Mu'awiya's reign, i.e., 41-60 AH), was a young companion of Muhammad.

The following is a list of the earliest known Hadith collectors who specialized in collecting Sīra and Maghāzī reports.ġst century of Hijra (622–719 CE) This is a chronological listing of biographies of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, ranging from the earliest traditional writers to modern times.

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