Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Isḥāq's Life of the Prophet and Early Qurʾān Exegesis : : A Study of Early Ibn ʿAbbās Traditions.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Thought
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; I. THE PROBLEM OF SOURCES ON THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUḤAMMAD --; II. SOURCE ANALYSIS --; III. MUḤAMMAD B. ABĪ MUḤAMMAD: A SOURCE FOR THE HISTORICAL VITA OF THE PROPHET? --; IV. EXCURSUS: IBN ISḤĀQ'S EXEGETICAL TRADITIONS FROM MUḤAMMAD B. ABĪ MUḤAMMAD --; APPENDIX: ISNĀDS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TRADITIONS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463237363; 9783110663013
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463237363
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

This important work is a source-critical study of a group of traditions (aḥādīth) found in Ibn Isḥāq's Biography (Sīra) of the prophet Muḥammad, widely considered one of the most important early historical texts on the Prophet's life. Through a meticulous isnād-cum-matn analysis, the author reveals that Ibn Isḥāq relied on Muḥammad b. Abī Muḥammad, a hitherto undocumented source of his. Important new light is also shed on problems with Ibn Hishām's recension of Ibn Isḥāq's Sīra.