Ibn Hisham
Ibn Hisham, full name Arabic عبد الملك بن هشام بن أيوب الحميري, أبو محمد ʿ Abd al -Malik ibn Hisham ibn Ayyūb al - Himyari, Abū Muhammad ʿ Abd al -Malik DMG b. Hisham b. Ayyūb al - Himyari, Abū Muḥammad (* in Basra; † May 8 829 or 834 in Fustat ), was an Arab historian, grammarian and genealogist.
Works
His principal work is his treatment of Ibn Ishaq's biography of the Prophet Mohammed under the title Sirat Muhammad Rasulillah / سيرة محمد رسول الله / Sirat Muhammad Rasuli ʾ llāh /, The biography of Muhammad, the Messenger of God '. At the beginning of the work described in Ibn Hisham, what criteria it in the tradition of his pupil al - ʾ ī Bakkā his selection from the original of Ibn Ishaq († 799 ) has made. He has omitted accordingly narratives in which Mohammed is not mentioned, certain poems, traditions, his teacher al - ʾ ī Bakkā their accuracy could not confirm, and inappropriate places, which may violate the reader.
His comments on the text of Ibn Ishaaq that he - apart from the omissions - quoted in the wording of his called teacher, are explanations of difficult terms of the Arabic language, supplements genealogy content at certain proper names, a brief description of that Ibn Ishaq places and etc. These are the original text of Ibn Ishaq in the appropriate places each with the note: attached " Qala Ibn Hisham " ( Ibn Hisham says ).
Ibn Hisham Ibn Ishaq's editing work has already been distributed to 864 in scholarly circles of Córdoba in Islamic Spain.
The work is the first time in Göttingen (1858-1860) appeared in the edition of the German orientalist Ferdinand Wüstefeld: The Life of Muhammad by Muhammad b. Ishaaq, edited by ʿ Abd al -Malik b. Hisham. Gustav Weil has a translation (Stuttgart 1864) published it. In the 20th century the book in the Orient has been printed several times.
The German Orientalist Gernot Rotter has an abridged German translation prepared which comprises about one-third of the work: The life of the Prophet. As- Sira On - Nabawīya. . Spohr, Kandern in the Black Forest 1999 The English translation of the work has been published by the British orientalist Alfred Guillaume in 1955: The Life of Muhammad. A translation of Ishaq 's Sirat rasul Allah. 11th edition. Oxford University Press, Karachi 1996
His kitāb at- tidschān li -ma ʿ rifat Muluk az- Zaman fī Achbar Qahtan / كتاب التيجان لمعرفة ملوك الزمان في أخبار قحطان / kitāb at- tīǧān li -ma ʿ rifat Muluk az- Zaman fī Ahbar Qahtan /, The Book of crowns to the knowledge of kings of (past ) times in the reports on the Qahtan ' is a genealogical work with partly legendary accounts of the South Arabians and their buildings in the pre-Islamic period.