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Title: Is the Sira reliable?
Post by: jim_darr on December 31, 2012, 12:20:31 PM

I have read  Ibn Ishaq is not reliable.

Is there any Sira source that is reliable?

Title: Re: Is the Sira reliable?
Post by: Egyptian on December 31, 2012, 04:43:21 PM

The Sealed Nectar. in English

http://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Ar-Raheeq%20Al-Makhtum.pdf


available also in Urdu

http://archive.org/details/Ar-raheeqAl-makhtumurdu

Title: Re: Is the Sira reliable?
Post by: jim_darr on January 01, 2013, 03:40:17 AM

thanks, but i'm talking early islammic sources, not something written in 1979 and with no references.

Title: Re: Is the Sira reliable?
Post by: Tanveer on January 01, 2013, 06:56:55 AM

Quote from: jim_darr on January 01, 2013, 03:40:17 AM

thanks, but i'm talking early islammic sources, not something written in 1979 and with no references.

Muhammad: His life based on the earliest sources by Martin Lings. I have a copy. It very good.

Title: Re: Is the Sira reliable?
Post by: jim_darr on January 01, 2013, 09:21:38 AM

Quote from: Tanveer on January 01, 2013, 06:56:55 AM

Quote from: jim_darr on January 01, 2013, 03:40:17 AM

thanks, but i'm talking early islammic sources, not something written in 1979 and with no references.

Muhammad: His life based on the earliest sources by Martin Lings. I have a copy. It very good.

I really just want early islammic sources, that are reliable, for the sira.

If it has to be later, and you say it refers to the early sources, then i'd want it to be online.

Title: Re: Is the Sira reliable?
Post by: Egyptian on January 01, 2013, 10:58:02 AM

online version

http://ia700503.us.archive.org/6/items/MartinLings-MuhammadHisLifeBasedOnTheEarliestSources/Lings_muhammad_lifeBased_on_earliest_sources.pdf