A Portrait of the Prophet: As seen by his contemporaries (Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyya) History as an object of knowledge

as an object of knowledge and as food for thought

Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi

this account demonstrates why there are so few other texts that have continued to impact Muslims in the eastern Islamic world

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

A Portrait of the Prophet: As seen by his contemporaries (Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyya) History as an object of knowledgeThis 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