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Biographies of Muhammad

This is a chronological listing of biographies of the Islamicprophet, Muhammad, from the earliest traditional writers to modern times.

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Number of biographies

The literature is extensive: in the Urdu language alone, a scholar from Pakistan in came up with a bibliography of more than 10, titles counting multivolume works as a single book and without taking into account articles, short essays or unpublished manuscripts, with the author also precising that the literature in Arabic is even more important.^[1]

Earliest biographers

The following is a list of the earliest known Hadith collectors who specialized in collecting Sīra and Maghāzī reports.

1st century of Hijrah (&#; CE)

• Sahl ibn Abī Ḥathma (d. in Mu'awiya's reign, i.e., AH), was a young companion of Muhammad. 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-Tabar