Seerah — What the Sources Record

Only Sunni sources are used. Every text below is quoted from its source with its reference; hadith grades are the ones the collections give. No story has been written on top of them: a narrative will be added only from statements a named scholar has reviewed.

Honouring the Prophet’s household and all the Companions is part of the creed of Ahl al-Sunnah. This page presents sources; it does not pass judgement on any Companion.

The events and their dates are those of our Seerah timeline. For each one, this page lists the hadith whose wording names it (the words searched are shown) and the passages in which the sīra and history books mention it. Nothing here is a new account of the Seerah; for the narrative, read the timeline.

Many sīra reports come through Ibn Isḥāq and al-Wāqidī. Where a passage names them, the verdicts the rijāl dictionary records on them are shown — they differ, and they are shown as recorded. The books often copy one another, so the same report in several books is usually one report.

Only a few passages per book are shown for each event (the author’s own section on it first); the event card tells you how many places in these books name it, and every passage opens in the full book.

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