The life of the Prophet ﷺ and the witnesses to it.
Biographies of the Prophet ﷺ, his Companions, the early generations, and the great scholars of the Islamic tradition — narrated from the classical chronicles (Ibn Hishām, Ibn Saʿd, the histories of al-Ṭabarī and al-Dhahabī) and the major collections of biographical entries (tarājim).
Where a biography draws on ḥadīth material, the chains and grades are noted in passing — but the goal here is the human shape of the tradition, not the muṣṭalaḥ analysis. For that, see Uṣūl al-Ḥadīth.
A translation of al-Kawtharī's Bulūgh al-Amānī, a biography and defence of Imām Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, principal codifier of the Ḥanafī school.
A timeline of Islamic rule from the Khulafāʾ al-Rāshidūn through the Umayyad, Abbasid and Ottoman houses, listing each ruler with the years of his reign down to 1924.
Twenty etiquettes for a student of knowledge, from ikhlāṣ and memorising the Qurʾān to the use of the pen and travel in its pursuit, drawn from al-Ghawrī's Ilā Ṭālib al-ʿIlm.
A short biography of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, the first khalīfah after the Prophet ﷺ, covering his lineage, his early acceptance of Islam, the hijrah and his death in 13 AH.
A biographical sketch of Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī (194–256 AH), compiler of the Ṣaḥīḥ, the most authenticated collection of ḥadīth in the Sunni tradition.
