'at-Tabaqat al-Kubra

Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Mani' al-Hashimi
Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Mani' al-Hashimi
Title	Katib al-Waqidi
Personal
Born	784/785 CE (168 AH)
Died	16 February 845 (aged 61) (230 AH)
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic golden age
Jurisprudence	Muʿtazila
Notable work(s)	'كتاب طبقات الكبرى', Kitab Tabaqat Al-Kubra (Book of the Major Classes)
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Al-Waqidi;

Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī^[5] or simply Ibn Saʿ'd (Arabic: 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)^[6] and died on 16 February 845 CE (230 AH).^[6] Ibn Sa'd was from Basra,^[1] 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.^[7]

Kitāb aṭ-ṭabaqāt al-kabīr[]

The Kitāb aṭ-ṭabaqāt al-kabīr in Arabic (translation: The Book of the Major Classes), is a compendium of biographical information about famous Islamic personalities. This eight-volume work contains the lives of Muhammad, his Companions and 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. 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".^[8]

Contents[]

Books 1 and 2 contain a biography (sirah) of Muhammad.
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 ions[]

Arabic[]

This work was ed between 1904 and 1921 by Eduard Sachau (Leiden, 1904 sqq.), including brief German synopses with page references for each book; cf. O. Loth, Das Classenbuch des Ibn Sad (Leipzig, 1869).
In 1968, Iḥsān Abbās ed it (Beirut: Dār Sādir).
‘Alī Muḥammad ‘Umar, ed. (2001). Kitāb al-ṭabaqāt al-kabīr. Cairo: Maktabat al-Khānjī. Contains 11 volumes.^[9]

English[]

Volumes 1 and 2 (of the Sachau ion) were translated in 1967 and 1972, respectively, by S. Moninul Haq, Pakistan Historical Society. Ibn Sa'd's Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir Vols. 1&2. ISBN 81-7151-127-9^[10]
Abridged translations of Volumes 3, 6, 7 and 8 have been translated by Aisha Bewley and published under the titles of The Companions of Badr, The Men of Madina, The Scholars of Kufa and The Women of Madina.

References[]

^ ^a ^b Ibn Hajar, Taqrib al-Tahdhib
^ Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol. 1, p.546, Edition. I, 1964
^ Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, 25 April 2014, p. 277, ISBN 9781610691789
^ The Literature of Islam, The Scarecrow Press, 20 September 2006, p. 107, ISBN 9781461673149
^ Fück, J.W. (1960). "Ibn Saʿd". Encyclopedia of Islam (2 ed.). Brill. ISBN 9789004161214. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
^ ^a ^b MM. "Imamate". Al-islam.org. Archived from the original on 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^ Ibn Khallikan (1868). "Mumammad ibn Saad". Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3. Translated by William MacGuckin de Slane. Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 65.
^ "Muhammad Ibn Sa'ad Ibn al-Hyder Abadee Blogspot". Ibnalhyderabadee.blogspot.com. 2006-04-20. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^ Demiri, Lejla (2013). Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo: Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī's (d. 716/1316) Commentary on the Christian Scriptures. BRILL. p. 549. ISBN 978-90-04-24320-0. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
^ Naveed S, PA. "Ibn Sa'd's Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir Vols. 1 & 2". Islamicbookstore.com. Retrieved 2010-05-19.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ibn Ṣa'd". Encyclopædia Britannica. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.