A Portrait of the Prophet: As seen by his contemporaries (Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyya) History is a very valuable addition

is a very valuable addition to the ever growing library of English Islamic literature

and this new addition to the increasingly rich and varied literature now available in the English language is both useful and accurate in its presentation and content

Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi

The second title in the Treasury in Islamic Thought and Civilization series

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A Portrait of the Prophet: As seen by his contemporaries (Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyya) History is a very valuable additionThis book belongs to the traditional genre of Islamic 'sacred history' sources known as sira (biography). It contains a famous and a most indispensable collection of authentic traditions (ahadith), listing the main texts from which to glean the beautiful attributes, both moral and physical, of the Holy Prophet Peace and Blessings be upon Him; attributes to which Muslims in all ages referred over and over, for the purposes of both meditation and