SÄ«rah Of The Prophet’s Early Life In Musnad of Aḥmad: An Analytical Study Of QurÊ¿Änic References In SÄ«rah Nabawiyyah
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https://doi.org/10.11113/sh.v9n3.1164Keywords:
Sīra Nabawiyya, Musnad, Aḥmad, Prophet Muḥammad, narrativeAbstract
Reviews of early Muslim sources confirm that some verses of the Qur’Än have been perceived by Muslim scholars as direct references to the narratives of the Prophet’s early life. These selected verses are deemed to contain information about Muḥammad’s genealogy, birth, childhood and other aspects of his youth. Modern scholars have, however, argued about the appropriateness and authority of these Qur’Änic references as being the true bearers of information of the Prophet’s biography. Since the ḥadÄ«th is regarded as an authoritative exegetical tool employed to explore more deeply the meaning of the Qur’Än, and one of which contains a vast source of information about the Prophet’s life, it is indispensable to analyse the works of ḥadÄ«th and its scholars’ views on the narratives of sÄ«ra nabawiyya. This study aims to explore the narratives of the Prophet’s early life in Musnad of Aḥmad and analyse Aḥmad’s perspective regarding Quranic references to the Prophet’s early life. The study is qualitative in nature in which the researcher utilised both critical and analytical approached as its methodology. The study in its finding espouses that the rarity of Qur’Änic reference to Muḥammad’s early life in Musnad of Aḥmad, an enormous inventory of ḥadÄ«th of the ninth century, indicates one scholar’s views about Muḥammad’s early life. It is obvious that Aḥmad make no connection between the Quran and the narratives of the Prophet’s early life, even though verses that are widely used by the author of sÄ«ra as an allusion to Muḥammad’s early life.
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