Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

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After graduating from Oxford Lings went to Vytautas Magnus University, in Lithuania, where he taught Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. Muhammad exiled two Jewish tribes named Banu Qaynuqa and Banu Nadir while splitting their wealth among his followers and taking one-fifth for himself. Martin Ling's biography of the Prophet Muhammad, based on the earliest available sources, is a masterpiece of engaging writing on a immense topic, and he carries it off beautifully.

He also reports from Lings how while writing this book, "he was overwhelmed with the presence of the Prophet during the entire time and felt a great blessing in having been able to complete it. Before Lings died in 2005, a newly revised edition of the book with 22 additional pages was published, which included final updates made on the text and incorporated into its contents, containing extra details pertaining to Muhammad's endeavors as well as accounts covering the spread of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states surrounding the Arabian Peninsula. Incensed at this, the prophet declared that “he did us injury and wrote poetry against us and none of you shall do this but he shall be put to the sword” (p. Do not so,” said the Prophet, “for verily thine eyes have their rights over thee, and thy body hath its rights, and thy family have their rights.Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Williams, Rebecca, Sira, Modern English, in Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God (2 vols. Martin Lings (Abu Bakar Saraj-ud-Din, a Muslim convert) describes the whole life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in a beautiful manner.

Even when the prophet was thrown out of Mecca, Muslims were still allowed to stay in the city and permitted to pray in the Kabah. Don't read the book because there are too many major mistakes but listen to the amazing lectures based on the book by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf.Hamzah’s violent retaliation on Abu Jahl for mocking the prophet assured the Quraysh of the new religion’s proneness to violence.