This examination of the social conditions and life of the women of the early Islamic community has been made on the information to be found in the eighth volume of the Tabaqat al-Kubrq, of Muhammad b. Sa'd and the sixth volume of the Musnad of Ahmad b. Hanbal. Muhammad b. Sa'd and b. Hanbal were contemporaries, - though the latter outlived the former by eleven years, - at a period when Muslim literature and thought were developing in many new directions, namely, the end of the second century and the beginning of the third century of the Muslim era. They both studied tradition and had several teachers in common, yet the knowledge they acquired was utilised for different purposes. This difference in the arrangement of their material has proved most valuable in the present examination, as it has provided a means of verifying the contents of the traditions to a certain extent. The information on the life and career of Muhanmad b. Sa'd b. Mani az-Zuhri Abu 'Abdallah is very limited. He must have been born at Basrah in 167 or 168 A. H., as it is said that he died at Baghdad in 230 A. H. at the age-of sixty- two and was buried in the cemetery of Nab ash-Shams b.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:503499 |
| Date | January 1937 |
| Creators | Stern, G. H. |
| Publisher | SOAS, University of London |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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