The Expeditions : : An Early Biography of Muḥammad / / Maʿmar ibn Rāshid; ed. by Sean W. Anthony.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: ibn Rāshid, Maʿmar,
• HerausgeberIn: Anthony, Sean W.,
• MitwirkendeR: Haleem, M.A.S. Abdel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Library of Arabic Literature ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The Expeditions is one of theoldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Itsprimary author, Ma'mar ibn Rashid (714-770 AD/96-153 AH), was a prominentscholar from Basra in southern Iraq who was revered for his learning inprophetic traditions, Islamic law, and the i...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Letter from the general editor
• Table of contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Note on the text
• Timeline
• Arabia and the near east in the 7th century
• Mecca and Medina during the lifetime of the prophet
• Notes to the frontmatter
• The expeditions
• The digging of the well of Zamzam
• The expedition of ḥudaybiyah
• The incident at Badr
• The combatants whom the prophet took captive at Badr
• The incident involving the Hudhayl tribe at Al-rajīʿ
• The incident concerning the clan of Al-naḍīr
• The incident at Uḥud
• The incident involving the united clans and the Qurayẓah clan
• The incident at Khaybar
• The expedition of the triumph
• The incident at ḥunayn
• Those who emigrated to abyssinia
• The story of the three who remained behind
• Those who failed to accompany the prophet on the tabūk expedition
• The story of the aws and the khazraj
• The story of the slander
• The story of the people of the pit
• The story of the companions of the cave
• The construction of the temple of Jerusalem
• The beginning of the messenger of god’s illness
• The oath of fealty to Abū bakr at the portico of the sāʿidah clan
• What ʿUmar said about the members of the shura
• Abū bakr’s designation of ʿumar as his successor
• The oath of fealty pledged to abū bakr
• The expedition of dhāt al-salāsil and the story of ʿalī and muʿāwiyah
• The story of al-ḥajjāj ibn ʿilāṭ
• The dispute between ʿalī and Al-ʿabbās
• The story of Abū luʾluʾah, ʿumar’s assassin
• The story of the Shura
• The expeditions to al-qādisiyyah and elsewhere
• The marriage of fāṭimah
• Notes
• Glossary of names, places, and terms
• Genealogical table of the Quraysh of mecca
• Bibliography
• Further reading
• Index
• About the nyu abu dhabi institute
• About the typefaces
• About the editor-translator