Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī[4] or simplyIbn Sa'd (Arabic:ابن سعد) and nicknamedScribe ofWaqidi (Katib al-Waqidi), was ascholar andArabian biographer. Ibn Sa'd was born in 784/785 CE (168 AH)[5] and died on 16 February 845 CE (230 AH).[5] Ibn Sa'd was fromBasra,[2] but lived mostly inBaghdad, hence thenisba al-Basri and al-Baghdadi respectively. He is said to have died at the age of 62 in Baghdad and was buried in the cemetery of the Syrian gate.[6]
Ibn Sa'd's authorship of this work is attested in a postscript to the book added by a later writer. In this notice he is described as a "client of al-Husayn ibn ‘Abdullah of the‘Abbasid family".[8] The work was subject to a major study by a European scholar already in 1869.[9]
S. Moinul Haq (transl.),Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume I, Parts I & II; Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society, 1967 [=Pakistan Historical Society Publication, no. 46]online link
S. Moinul Haq (transl.),Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume II, Parts I & II; Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society, 1972 [=Pakistan Historical Society Publication, no. 59]online link
S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume I ( Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi, 1981)online link
S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume ll ( Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi, 1981)online link
Abridged translations of Volumes 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 have been translated by Aisha Bewley and published under the titles ofThe Companions of Badr,The Men of Madina-II,The Scholars of Kufa,The Men of Madina-I, andThe Women of Madina.online link
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^Ibn Khallikan (1868). "Muhammad ibn Saad".Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3. Translated by William MacGuckin de Slane. Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 65.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ibn Ṣa'd".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 223.
