Sirat al-Halabiya () or the original name, Insan al-Aiyun Fi Siratil Aminil Ma'mun () is a classical Islamic biography of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad
Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad in Islam, According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the tawhid, monotheistic teachings of A ...
, written by Ali ibn Burhan al-Din al-Halabi (also known as Nur ad-Din al-Halabi), a 16th-century CE Islamic scholar from
Aleppo
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.
Content
Sirat al-Halabiya covers the life of Muhammad from his birth to his death, detailing his ancestry, childhood, prophethood, the revelation of the Quran, his migration (
Hijrah
The Hijrah, () also Hegira (from Medieval Latin), was the journey the prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers took from Mecca to Medina. The year in which the Hijrah took place is also identified as the e ...
) to Medina, his battles, his social and political roles, his teachings, and his family life. The work is known for its detailed narratives, incorporating various traditions and reports from earlier sources. It also discusses miracles attributed to Muhammad. Like other Sirah works, it aims to provide a comprehensive model for Muslim life based on the example of Muhammad.
Author
Ali bin Burhan al-Din al-Halabi al-Shafi’i (; 975 AH/1567 AD1044 AH/1635 AD) Abu al-Faraj Nour al-Din bin Burhan al-Din, a Muslim historian, writer, and scholar, originally from Aleppo, was born in Egypt and died there.
He was one of the teacher of the
Salihiyya Madrasa
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, and his death was on Saturday, the last day of Shaban in the hijri year of 1044, and he was buried in the Mujawarin cemetery.
Influence and legacy
Sirat al-Halabiya has been widely studied and referenced throughout the Muslim world, particularly within Sunni Islamic scholarship. Its detailed accounts and comprehensive nature have made it a popular source for sermons, lectures, and scholarly writings on the life of Muhammad. It has also been translated into various languages.
See also
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Sīrah
Al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya (), commonly shortened to Sīrah and translated as prophetic biography, are the traditional biographies of the Islamic prophet Muhammad written by Muslim historians, from which, in addition to the Qurʾān and ''ḥadīth ...
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List of biographies of Muhammad
This is a chronological listing of biographies of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, from the earliest traditional writers to modern times.
Number of biographies
The literature is extensive: in the Urdu language alone, a scholar from Pakistan in 202 ...
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Qadi Iyad
Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿAmr ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī al-Sabtī (Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, ...
(author of
The Book of Healing
''The Book of Healing'' (; ; also known as ) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by Abu Ali ibn Sīna (also known as Avicenna). He most likely began to compose the book in 1014, completed it around 1020, and published it in ...
)
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Ibn Hisham
Abu Muhammad Abd al-Malik ibn Hisham ibn Ayyub al-Himyari (; died 7 May 833), known simply as Ibn Hisham, was a 9th-century Abbasid historian and scholar. He grew up in Basra, in modern-day Iraq and later moved to Egypt.
Life
Ibn Hisham has ...
(author of
Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah)
References
Further reading
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External links
Digital copies of Sirat al-Halabiya on Internet Archive(Arabic)
Urdu translation of 6 volumes
Sunni literature
Cultural depictions of Muhammad
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