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Abdul Wahhab Najjar's (1862–1941) modern Qaṣaṣ explains the stories of the prophets solely based on Quranic sources, being diametrically opposed to the Medieval tractats of the same title. However, they share the chronological structure of earlier Qaṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ and a summary of the prophetic moral lessons.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kisāʾī (Arabic: محمد الكسائي) (ca. 1100 CE) wrote a work on Stories of the Prophets (Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā). It has been characterised as "one of the best-loved versions of the prophetic tales". [1]: xix
These names do not imply that the major prophets are more important than the minor prophets, but refer to the major prophetic books being much longer than the minor ones. [3] The books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel have 66, 52 and 48 chapters, respectively, while the minor prophets merely have 1 to 14 chapters per book. [6]
Al-Anbiyaʼ [1] (Arabic: الأنبياء, ’al-’anbiyā’; meaning: "The Prophets") [2] is the 21st chapter of the Quran with 112 verses . Its principal subject matter is prophets of the past, who also preached the same faith as Muhammad .
Ibn Hishām said in the preface that he chose from the original work of Ibn Isḥāq in the tradition of his disciple Ziyād al-Baqqāʾi (d. 799), omitting stories from Al-Sīrah that contain no mention of Muḥammad, [5] certain poems, traditions whose accuracy Ziyād al-Baqqāʾi [n 1] could not confirm, and offensive passages that could ...
] The text narrates the story of Yusuf , son of Jacob, who is a prophet in Islam, and recounts his life and mission. Unlike the accounts of other Islamic prophets, [4] different elements and aspects of which are related in different surahs, the life-history of Yusuf, is narrated in this surah only, in full and in chronological order.
Organised according to the historical sequence of the prophets, many of the accounts are elaborations from the same sources used by al-Ṭabarī... It has become the standard source of Islamic prophet stories, alongside the work of al-Kisāʾī'. [19] Al-Kamil fi 'ilm al-Quran ("The Complete in Quranic sciences"). This is a lost work mentioned ...
Ibn Isḥaq collected oral traditions about the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. These traditions, which he orally dictated to his pupils, [1] are now known collectively as Sīrat Rasūl Allāh (Arabic: سيرة رسول الله "Life of the Messenger of God"). His work is entirely lost and survives only in the following sources: