A Portrait of the Prophet: As seen by his contemporaries (Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyya) History Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi

Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi

Michael Muhammad Knight converted to Islam at the age of sixteen after reading the autobiography of Malcolm X

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A Portrait of the Prophet: As seen by his contemporaries (Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyya) History Maulana Ashraf Ali ThanawiThis 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