Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Ishaq's Life of the Prophet and Early Qur'an Exegesis

This important work is a source-critical study of a group of traditions (ahadith) found in Ibn Ishaq's Biography (Sira) of the prophet Muhammad, widely considered one of the most important early historical texts on the Prophet's life. Important new light is also shed on problems with Ibn Hisham's recension of Ibn Ishaq's Sira.