Ibn Hisham, Editor of the Sirah

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Ibn Hishamابن هشام

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He edited Ibn Ishaq's life of the Prophet ﷺ into the Sirah read today.

A grammarian of Basran family living in Egypt, he received Ibn Ishaq's work through its transmitter al-Bakka'i. He trimmed it, removing poems and stories he judged unsound or off the subject, and added notes on language.

What grew out of it?

Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah of Ibn Hisham is the classic seerah.

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