Ibn Hisham

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Ibn Hisham (d. 833 AD) or Ibn-i-Hisham or Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik bin Hisham (Arabic: أبو محمد عبدالمالك بن هشام‎) edited the biography of Muhammad written by Ibn Ishaq.[1] Ibn Ishaq's work is lost and is now only known in the recensions of Ibn Hisham and al-Tabari.[2] He was also said to have mastered Arabic philology in a way which only Sibawayh had.[3]

Ibn Hisham has been said to have grown up in Basra and moved afterwards to Egypt,[4] while others have narrated that his family was descended from Basra but he himself was born in Old Cairo.[6] Either way, it is in Egypt where he gained a name as a grammarian and student of language and history. His family was of Himyarite origin, though some narrators trace him to Mu'afir ibn Ya'far, while others say he is a Dhuhli.[5]

References

  1. Kathryn Kueny, The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam, pg. 59. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. ISBN 9780791490181
  2. Sahaja Carimokam, Muhammad and the People of the Book, pg. 520. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2011. ISBN 9781453537855
  3. Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah, vol. 2, pg. 298. Trns. Franz Rosenthal. Issue 43 of Bollingen Series (General) Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. ISBN 9780691097978
  4. Mustafa al-Suqa, Ibrahim al-Abyari and Abdul-Hafidh Shalabi, Tahqiq Sirah an-Nabawiyyah li Ibn Hisham, ed.: Dar Ihya al-Turath, pp. 23-4
  5. Mustafa al-Suqa, Ibrahim al-Abyari and Abdul-Hafidh Shalabi, Tahqiq Sirah an-Nabawiyyah li Ibn Hisham, ed.: Dar Ihya al-Turath, pp. 23-4

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