Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī or simply Ibn Sa'd ( ar, ابن سعد) and nicknamed ''Scribe of
Waqidi
Abu `Abdullah Muhammad Ibn ‘Omar Ibn Waqid al-Aslami (Arabic ) (c. 130 – 207 AH; c. 747 – 823 AD) was a historian commonly referred to as al-Waqidi (Arabic: ). His surname is derived from his grandfather's name Waqid and thus he became fa ...
'' (''Katib al-Waqidi''), was a
scholar and
Arabian biographer. Ibn Sa'd was born in 784/785 CE (168 AH)
and died on 16 February 845 CE (230 AH).
Ibn Sa'd was from
Basra,
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.
''Kitāb aṭ-Tabaqāt al-Kabīr''
The ''Kitāb aṭ-Tabaqāt al-Kabīr'' in Arabic (), is a compendium of biographical information about famous
Islam
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ic personalities. This eight-volume work contains the lives of
Muhammad, his
Companions and
Helpers, including those who fought at the
Battle of Badr
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as a special class, and of the following generation,
the Followers, who received their traditions from the Companions. 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".
Contents
* Books 1 and 2 contain a biography (
''sirah'') of
Muhammad.
* 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
* This work was edited between 1904 and 1921 by
Eduard Sachau (
Leiden, 1904 sqq.), including brief German synopses with page references for each book; cf.
O. Loth, ''Das Classenbuch des Ibn Sad'' (
Leipzig, 1869).
* In 1968, Iḥsān Abbās edited it (Beirut: Dār Sādir).
* Contains 11 volumes.
English
* Volumes 1 and 2 (of the Sachau edition) were translated in 1967 and 1972, respectively, by S. Moninul Haq, Pakistan Historical Society. ''Ibn Sa'd's Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir Vols. 1&2''.
* Abridged translations of Volumes 3, 6, 7 and 8 have been translated by Aisha Bewley and published under the titles of ''The Companions of Badr'', ''The Men of Madina'', ''The Scholars of Kufa'' and ''The Women of Madina''.
See also
*
List of Islamic scholars
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
References
;Attribution
External links
Biodata at MuslimScholars.info
784 births
845 deaths
Arab Muslim historians of Islam
9th-century historians from the Abbasid Caliphate
Hadith scholars
9th-century Arabs
Biographical evaluation scholars
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