Ibn Sa'd
{{Short description|Arab scholar, biographer and historian (784/5-845)}}
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| name = Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Mani' al-Hashimi
| title = Katib al-Waqidi
| birth_date = 784/785 CE (168 AH)
| death_date = 16 February 845 (aged 61) (230 AH)Ibn Hajar, Taqrib al-TahdhibEncyclopedia of Islam, Vol. 1, p.546, Edition. I, 1964|
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| works = 'كتاب طبقات الكبرى', Kitab Tabaqat Al-Kubra (Book of the Major Classes)
| influences = Al-Waqidi
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| birth_place = BasraSiyar A'lam al-Nubala (10/664) .
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Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī{{cite encyclopedia|first=J.W. |last=Fück |url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/ibn-sad-SIM_3343 |title=Ibn Saʿd |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Islam |edition=2 |publisher=Brill |date=1960 |isbn=9789004161214 |access-date=2015-11-05}} or simply Ibn Sa'd ({{langx|ar|ابن سعد}}) and nicknamed Scribe of Waqidi (Katib al-Waqidi), was a scholar and Arabian biographer. Ibn Sa'd was born in 784/785 CE (168 AH){{cite web |author=MM |url=http://www.al-islam.org/imamate/biblio.htm |title=Imamate |publisher=Al-islam.org |access-date=2010-05-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821032700/http://www.al-islam.org/imamate/biblio.htm |archive-date=2009-08-21 }} 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.{{cite book|title=Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3|page=65|chapter=Muhammad ibn Saad|author=Ibn Khallikan|author-link=Ibn Khallikan|translator=William MacGuckin de Slane|year=1868|publisher=Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland}}
''Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr''
The Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr ({{Trans|The Major Book of Classes}}) is a compendium of biographical information (tabaqāt) about famous Islamic personalities. This eight-volume work contains the lives of Muhammad, his Companions and his Helpers, including those who fought at the Battle of Badr as a special class, and of the following generation, the Followers, who received their traditions from the Companions.{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle = Ibn Ṣa'd|volume=14|page=223}}
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".{{cite web |url=http://ibnalhyderabadee.blogspot.com/2006/04/muhammad-ibn-saad.html |title=Muhammad Ibn Sa'ad Ibn al-Hyder Abadee Blogspot |publisher=Ibnalhyderabadee.blogspot.com |date=2006-04-20 |access-date=2010-05-19 |archive-date=2011-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708042408/http://ibnalhyderabadee.blogspot.com/2006/04/muhammad-ibn-saad.html |url-status=dead }} The work was subject to a major study by a European scholar already in 1869.cf. Loth, Otto, [https://books.google.com/books?id=NNYOAAAAQAAJ Das Classenbuch des Ibn Sa‘d: Einleitende Untersuchungen über Authentie und Inhalt nach den handschriftlichen Überresten] (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1869).
=Contents=
- Books 1 and 2 contain a prophetic biography.
- 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 =
- {{Cite book |last=Ibn Saʻd |first=Muḥammad |title=Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-kabīr : wa-huwa mushtamil aydan ʻalá al-Sīrah al-Sharīfah al-Nabawīyah / taṣnīf Muḥammad ibn Saʻd Kātib al-Wāqidī ; ʻaniya bi-taṣḥīḥihi wa ṭabʻihi Idward Sakhaw ; Kārl Brūkilmān |publisher=Brill |year=1904–40 |editor-last=Sachau |editor-first=Eduard |editor-link=Eduard Sachau |volume=9 vols |location=Leiden |language=ar |script-title=ar:كتاب الطبقات الكبير : وهو مشتمل أيضاً على السيرة الشريفة النبويّة. الجزء الثامن |trans-title=Biographien Muhammeds, seiner gefährten und der späteren träger des Islams bis zum jahre 230 der flucht |editor-last2=Brockelmann |editor-first2=Carl |editor-link2=Carl Brockelmann}} (includes brief German synopses with page references for each book, reprinted in 2022 as {{cite book | author = Muḥammad Ibn Saʿd | date = 13 January 2022 | title =
Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb Al-Ṭabaqāt Al-Kabīr | publisher = BRILL | pages = | isbn = 978-90-04-46989-1 | oclc = 1291632208 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=QafczgEACAAJ}}[https://archive.org/details/tabqaatibnsaadarabic/page/n7/mode/1up online link] - In 1968, Iḥsān Abbās edited it (Beirut: Dār Sādir).
- {{cite book|editor=‘Alī Muḥammad ‘Umar |date=2001 |title=Kitāb al-ṭabaqāt al-kabīr |place=Cairo |publisher=Maktabat al-Khānjī |url=https://archive.org/details/tabqaatibnsaadarabic/mode/2up}} Contains 11 volumes.{{cite book|first=Lejla |last=Demiri |title=Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo: Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī's (d. 716/1316) Commentary on the Christian Scriptures. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cT4yAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA549 |date=2013 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-24320-0 |pages=549 |access-date=2015-11-05}}
= English =
- S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume I, Parts I & II; Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society, 1967 [= Pakistan Historical Society Publication, no. 46][https://archive.org/details/kitab-al-tabaqat-al-kabir-ibn-sad-s.-moinul-haq-h.-k.-ghazanfar-1 online link]
- S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume II, Parts I & II; Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society, 1972 [= Pakistan Historical Society Publication, no. 59][https://archive.org/details/kitab-al-tabaqat-al-kabir-ibn-sad-s.-moinul-haq-h.-k.-ghazanfar-2 online link]
- S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume I ( Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi, 1981)[https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/tabaqat-al-kabir-life-of-the-prophet-vol-i-parts-i-and-ii-1nbsped-8171511279-8171511287.html online link]
- S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume ll ( Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi, 1981)[https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/kitab-al-tabaqat-al-kabir-life-of-the-prophet-muhammad-vol-ii-parts-i-and-ii-8171511279-8171511295.html online link]
- Abridged translations of Volumes 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 have been translated by Aisha Bewley and published under the titles of The Companions of Badr, The Men of Madina-II, The Scholars of Kufa, The Men of Madina-I, and The Women of Madina.[https://archive.org/details/kitab-at-tabaqat-al-kabir/Kitab_at_Tabaqat_al_Kabir_Volume_III_The_Companions_of_Badr_2013/page/n1/mode/1up online link]
See also
References
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External links
{{Wikisourcelang|ar|مؤلف:ابن سعد|Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi}}
- [http://www.muslimscholars.info/manage.php?submit=scholar&ID=30008 Biodata at MuslimScholars.info]
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