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 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.
