Al-Waqidi

Al - Waqidi (Arabic محمد بن عمر بن واقد الواقدي Mohammed ibn ʿ Umar ibn al - Waqidi Wāqid, DMG Muḥammad ʿ Umar b al - Waqidi b Wāqid, .. * 747 in Medina; † in Baghdad 823 ) was an Arab historian.

His field effect was first in Medina. From 796 he lived in Baghdad, where he also served as a judge. He stood near the Kalifenhof under Haaroon ar - Rashid, whom he accompanied on the pilgrimage, and al - Ma'mun. In his works he dealt with the early Islamic history from the time of the Prophet Mohammed to the time of the Islamic conquests, which he used mainly sources its predecessor Medinan origin. In the field of Hadith and Fiqh, he enjoyed special prestige neither his contemporaries nor in subsequent generations.

Works

His most famous work, which is in three volumes, including registers in print since 1966, is the kitāb al - Maghazi / كتاب المغازي / Kitabu ʾ l - MAGAZI /, over the campaigns of the Prophet ', which exclusively dedicated to the campaigns of the Prophet Mohammed is. A part of this work has been published in 1856 in Calcutta, the German orientalist Alfred von Kremer, of which Julius Wellhausen 1882 a German translation anfertigte. Reports that are not included in the above-mentioned work, has his pupil Muhammad ibn Sa ʿ d in its class Book ( kitāb al - Tabaqat al Kabir / كتاب الطبقات الكبير / kitāb aṭ ṭabaqāti ʾ l -Kabeer /, The Big Book class ') to al- Waqidi processed. Even al - Wāqid itself is considered the author of a class book, which was dedicated to the biography of the Prophet's companions ( sahaba ) and their successors, as well as the scholars of the cities of Kufa and Basra. This work, however, is lost.

His Kitāb as- Saqīfa wa - bai ʿ at Abī Bakr كتاب السقيفة وبيعة أبي بكر /, The report of the portico and the election of Abu Bakr ', which still knew Ibn an - Nadim, is also no longer receive; but it is used by later authorities of Islamic historiography.

His kitāb al - Futuh / كتاب الفتوح / Kitabu ʾ l - Futuh /, The Book of conquests ' is preserved only in relatively late transcripts; some parts, the authenticity of which is disputed, are treated in research as a pseudo - Waqidi.

The kitab al - ridda / كتاب الردة / Kitabu ʾ r- ridda /, The Book of the Ridda Wars ' has been preserved only in quotations and paraphrases of later historians. The book deals with the fall of the Arab tribes of Islam after Muhammad's death in the first Caliph Abu Bakr.