Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra (SET)
Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr
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Muḥammad Ibn Saʿd
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Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (
Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled
Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940.
Contributing editors
Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
Contributing editors
Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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3-1, Biographies of Muḥammad’s Meccan Warriors during the Battle of Badr
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20 Jan 2022
978-90-04-46990-7
1-1, The Biography of Muḥammad up to the Hijra
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66017-5
1-2, The Biography of Muḥammad. Events during His Time in Medina, His Physical Appearance and His Habits
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66018-2
2-1, The Military Campaigns of Muḥammad
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08 Jul 2024
978-90-04-65914-8
2-2, The Final Illness, Death and Burial of Muḥammad together with Eulogies. Biographies of Specialists in Legal Matters and the Qurʾān, Who Worked in Medina during the Lifetime of the Prophet and the Next Generation
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66019-9
3-2, Biographies of Muḥammad’s Medinese Warriors during the Battle of Badr
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66020-5
4-1, Biographies of the Muhājirūn and Anṣār, Who Did Not participate in Badr, but Who Converted Early, All Those Who Emigrated to Abyssinia and Took Part in the Battle of Uḥud
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66021-2
4-2, Biographies of the Companions Who Converted before the Conquest of Mecca
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66022-9
5, Biographies of the Successors in Medina as well as the Companions and the Successors from the Rest of Arabia
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66023-6
6, Biographies of the Kūfans
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66024-3
7-1, Biographies of the Baṣrans up to the End of the Second Generation
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66043-4
7-2, Biographies of the Baṣrans from the Third Generation up to the End and Traditionalists in Other Parts of the Islamic World
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66044-1
8, Biographies of Women
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66045-8
9-1. Index of Persons to Whom Ibn Saʿd Dedicated Special Entries in His Ṭabaqāt
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21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66046-5
9-2. Indices, 1. Index of Names of Places and Peoples, 2. Words of the Prophet, Alphabetical Index of the Beginnings of Sentences, 3. Index of Rhymes, 4. Index of Qurʾānic Verses
Publication Date:
21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66047-2
9-3. Indices. Index of Persons Who Are Mentioned in the Text of Ibn Saʿd’s Kitāb al-Ṭābaqāt al-Kabīr
Publication Date:
21 Dec 2023
978-90-04-66048-9
Muḥammad
Ibn Saʿd b. Manīʿ al-Zuhrī (168-230/784-845) was a scholar and biographer who was born in Baṣra. He studied with numerous scholars in Iraq and became the scribe of the famous historian Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-Wāqidī (d. 207/822).
Eduard Sachau (1845-1930), doctorate (1867) Halle, was a professor of Semitic philology at the University of Vienna and the University of Berlin. He made an important contribution to the field by leaving behind a number of editions of Arabic and Syriac works.
Eduard Sachau (1845-1930), doctorate (1867) Halle, was a professor of Semitic philology at the University of Vienna and the University of Berlin. He made an important contribution to the field by leaving behind a number of editions of Arabic and Syriac works.
Al those interested in early Islamic history.