Template:Distinguish Template:Infobox religious biography Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī[1] or simply Ibn Sa'd (Template:Lang-ar) and nicknamed Scribe of Waqidi (Katib al-Waqidi), was a scholar and Arabian biographer. Ibn Sa'd was born in 784/785 CE (168 AH)[2] and died on 16 February 845 CE (230 AH).[2] Ibn Sa'd was from Basra,[3] but lived mostly in Baghdad, hence the nisba al-Basri and al-Baghdadi respectively. He is said to have died at the age of 62 in Baghdad and was buried in the cemetery of the Syrian gate.[4]
Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr
The Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Template:Trans) is a compendium of biographical information (tabaqāt) about famous Islamic personalities. This eight-volume work contains the lives of Muhammad, his Companions and his Helpers, including those who fought at the Battle of Badr as a special class, and of the following generation, the Followers, who received their traditions from the Companions.[5]
Ibn Sa'd's authorship of this work is attested in a postscript to the book added by a later writer. In this notice he is described as a "client of al-Husayn ibn ‘Abdullah of the ‘Abbasid family".[6] The work was subject to a major study by a European scholar already in 1869.[7]
Contents
- Books 1 and 2 contain a prophetic biography.
- Books 3 and 4 contain biographies of companions of Muhammad.
- Books 5, 6 and 7 contain biographies of later Islamic scholars.
- Book 8 contains biographies of Islamic women.
Published editions
Arabic
- Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-kabīr : wa-huwa mushtamil aydan ʻalá al-Sīrah al-Sharīfah al-Nabawīyah / taṣnīf Muḥammad ibn Saʻd Kātib al-Wāqidī ; ʻaniya bi-taṣḥīḥihi wa ṭabʻihi Idward Sakhaw ; Kārl Brūkilmān{{#if:Ibn Saʻd|, Ibn Saʻd}. Brill(1904–40) (includes brief German synopses with page references for each book, reprinted in 2022 as Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of <i>Kitāb Al-Ṭabaqāt Al-Kabīr</i>{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. BRILL(13 January 2022). ISBN 978-90-04-46989-1
- In 1968, Iḥsān Abbās edited it (Beirut: Dār Sādir).
- Kitāb al-ṭabaqāt al-kabīr{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Maktabat al-Khānjī(2001) Contains 11 volumes.[8]
English
- S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume I, Parts I & II (Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society, 1967 [= Pakistan Historical Society Publication, no. 46]) online link.
- S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume II, Parts I & II (Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society, 1972 [= Pakistan Historical Society Publication, no. 59]) online link.
- S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume I & II ( Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi, 1981)
- Abridged translations of Volumes 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 have been translated by Aisha Bewley and published under the titles of The Companions of Badr, The Men of Madina-II, The Scholars of Kufa, The Men of Madina-I, and The Women of Madina.
See also
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Imamate. Al-islam.org. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
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- ↑ Template:EB1911
- ↑ Muhammad Ibn Sa'ad Ibn al-Hyder Abadee Blogspot. Ibnalhyderabadee.blogspot.com(2006-04-20). Retrieved 2010-05-19.
- ↑ cf. Loth, Otto, Das Classenbuch des Ibn Sa‘d: Einleitende Untersuchungen über Authentie und Inhalt nach den handschriftlichen Überresten (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1869).
- ↑ Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo: Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī's (d. 716/1316) Commentary on the Christian Scriptures.{{#if:Demiri|, Demiri}. BRILL(2013). ISBN 978-90-04-24320-0