Table of Contents

Preface Translator's Foreword The Events of the Year 8 (cont'd) (629/630) An Account of the Messenger of God's Expedition against the Hawazin and the Battle of Hunayn [The Siege of al-Ta'if] [The Division of the Booty Captured at Hunayn and Gifts of Conciliation] The Events of the Year 9 (630/635) An Account of the Military Expedition to Tabuk [An Account of the People Who Accepted Islam] The Events of the Year 10 (635/632) The Deputation of the Banu 'Amir b. Sa'sa'ah Disagreement about the Number of the Armies and the Raiding Parties (Saraya) Sent by the Messenger of God Report about the Messenger of God's Pilgrimages Report about the Messenger of God's Wives, Those Who Survived Him, Those Who Left Him, the Reason for Which They Left, and Those Who Died before Him The Reason Why the Messenger of God Asked for the Hands of Both 'A'ishah and Sawdah in Marriage and the Received Reports as to with Whom He First Contracted the Marriage An Account of Those Women to Whom the Prophet Proposed But Did Not Marry An Account of the Messenger of God's Slave Concubines The Events of the Year 10 (cont'd) (631/632) An Account of the Messenger of God's Freedmen An Account of the Messenger of God's Scribes The Names of the Messenger of God's Horses The Names of the Messenger of God's Mules The Names of the Messenger of God's Camels The Names of the Messenger of God's Milch Camels The Names of the Messenger of God's Milch Sheep (Mana'ih) The Names of the Messenger of God's Swords The Names of the Messenger of God's Bows and Lances The Names of the Messenger of God's Coats of Mail The Names of the Messenger of God's Shields The Messenger of God's Names The Messenger of God's Characteristics The Seal of Prophethood Which He Had His Bravery and Generosity The Description of His Hair and Whether He Used to Dye It or Not Report about the Beginning of the Messenger of God's Illness in Which He Died, and What He Did Just Prior to It When He Was Bewailed [for His Approaching Death] The Events of the Year 11 (632/633) An Account of the Day on Which the Messenger of God Died and His Age An Account of the Saqifah The Disagreements about His Age When He Died The Day and the Month in Which the Messenger of God died Bibliography of Cited Works Index Index of Qur'anic Verses