One of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally published between 1904 and 1940 under the title Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht.
Muḥammad Ibn Saʿd b. Manīʿ al-Zuhrī (168-230/784-845) was a scholar and biographer who was born in Baṣra. He studied with numerous scholars in Iraq and became the scribe of the famous historian Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-Wāqidī (d. 207/822). Eduard Sachau (1845-1930), doctorate (1867) Halle, was a professor of Semitic philology at the University of Vienna and the University of Berlin. He made an important contribution to the field by leaving behind a number of editions of Arabic and Syriac works.