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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

This retelling of the sira or life of the Prophet is based directly on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, including some passages which were translated here for the first time.



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Abu 'Ubaida

Almost half of all information about Arabia before Islam reported by later authors was by way of Abu Ubaida, and he wrote the earliest extant Tafsir or commentary on the Qur'an, which was the basis for explaining any verses in the prophetic biography written by Ibn Hisham.