Italic Title: | Yes |
Usd al-ghābah fi ma‘rifat al-Saḥabah | |
Author: | Ali ibn al-Athir |
Orig Lang Code: | ar |
Translator: | Urdu Translated: Maulana Muhammad Abdul Shakoor Faruqi. |
Language: | Arabic |
Subject: | Islamic History, Biography of Sahabah, Timeline of Muhammad and his companions. |
Publisher: | Dar Ibn Hazm, Beirut, Lebanon |
Pub Date: | 2012 |
Media Type: | Print, pdf |
Pages: | 1657 |
Isbn: | 978-9953-81-621-0 |
Usd al-ghābah fi maʿrifat al-Saḥabah (Arabic: أسد الغابة في معرفة الصحابة|lit= Lions of the Wild: On Knowing the Companions), commonly known as Usd al-Gabah, is a book by Ali ibn al-Athir.[1] [2] Written in 1200 and published in 2012, it is a biography of Muhammad and 7,554 of his companions.[3] [4]
The accounts are ordered alphabetically. The title relies primarily on four other works: Ma'rifat al-Sahabah by Abi Na'im, al-Isti'ab fi Ma'rifat al-Ashab by Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, Ma'rifat al-Ashab and al-Dhayl 'ala Ma'rifat al-Ashab, both by Ibn Mandah.
Ibn Hajar says in Taqrib that he was truthful, but habitually connected disjointed narrations without mentioning his sources.[5]