Ibn Ishaq
Historian
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Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi, known simply as Ibn Ishaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer. Ibn Ishaq, also known by the title ṣāḥib al-sīra, collected oral traditions that formed the basis of an... Wikipedia
Born: 704 AD, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Died: 768 AD (age 64 years), Baghdad, Iraq
Parents: Ishaq Ibn Yasar
Main interest(s): Prophetic biography
Notable work(s): al-Sira al-nabawiyya ('Life of the Prophet')
Region: Middle East
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