Ibn Ishaq
Arab hagiographer and historian (704-767) · Writers · Lived 704 to 768 · aged 64
He wrote the earliest surviving biography of Muhammad, stitching together oral traditions into a narrative that would anchor Islamic historical memory for over a millennium.
Ibn Ishaq is read about 207 times a day, in 43 languages.
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, Ibn Ishaq (693) - "Then the apostle sent Sa-d b.
Ibn Ishaq (970) - "The adulterer must be stoned.
Ishaq 956 & 962 - "He who withholds the Jizya is an enemy of Allah and His apostle.
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Ibn Ishaq was born around 699 in Medina, decades after the prophet's death, into a world still thick with living witnesses and their children. He spent years traveling and collecting oral accounts - stories passed down from companions and their descendants - then wove them into a continuous life story called "Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah." The original text is lost, but it survived through later scholars who copied, edited, and transmitted his work, most famously in the recension by Ibn Hisham. He died around 768, but his framework became the skeleton on which nearly all subsequent biographies of Muhammad were built.
