Biography of the Prophet by Ibn Hisham

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The Biography of the Prophet by Ibn Hisham or the biography of Ibn Hisham is a book on the prophetic biography of the Prophet Muhammad, the Messenger of Islam, and it is considered one of the most important books on the Prophet’s biography and its main sources. It is a book by Abu Muhammad Abd al-Malik bin Hisham bin Ayyub al-Himyari al-Basri, who died in the year (218 AH). He narrated it on the authority of Muhammad bin Ishaq (d. 151 AH), after taking permission for his narration from Ziyad bin Abdullah al-Bakai (d. 183 AH), and he conducted it. Ibn Hisham made additions and deletions to Ibn Ishaq, as he refined it, and Ibn Hisham deleted many of the stories of the Israelites and the plagiarized poetry until the biography was known under the name Ibn Hisham, and researchers took an interest in it, and many explanations and abbreviations were written on it.