The Oldest Sirat al-Nabi

Please note that this book is a translation in the Urdu Language of its English version, published on the 28th of December 2013, titled, 'The Fascinating Story of Muhammad.' The English version was well received and reviewed on Amazon with forty-nine percent of the readers giving it five stars and fifty-one percent giving three stars. Two reviewers stated the following:A most detailed and authenticated account of Prophet Muhammad’s life with supportive verses from the Koran. Very interesting to read. I started reading it and could not put it down. It also includes the history of the four caliphs and a short summary of the Omayyad and Abbasid rule and the impact of the Arab Islamic Empire on the world. (Andy)Very interesting detail of the life of Muhammad with good references... This book will give the reader a view of what really happened during the time. Discussion in the appendix is very interesting. (Abdul Alam)The Arab histories, written in the 7th and 8th centuries by al Waqidi, al Tibri, Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Husham, and Ibn Sa’ad, supported by verses of the Qur’an, are greatly differentiable in length and analyses from the modern Islamic propaganda history. The Islamists teach short, purged, and grossly exaggerated versions to produce preachers, jihadis, and propagandists to spread Islam. However, the earliest histories, based on hundreds of thousands of meticulously gathered reports of the people of the period, and contemporary poetry and prose provide a much more detailed and realistic account. Ibn Ishaq in particular travelled widely to collect accounts from those who had witnessed the events or learned about them from Muhammad’s contemporaries. Over decades, he painstakingly gathered information and wrote it. This book is based on these earliest sources.Narrating the story in the gripping way of a good novel, this book tells about Prophet Muhammad, his believer and unbeliever tribal relatives, the Koran, and the Arabian society of the period as truthfully and originally as the oldest Arab records make it possible. Ali Sina, a great expert of Islam, wrote about this book: 'This is a great book. I read the first thirty pages and I could not stop. This book must be translated in all languages and become available to all ...'