17 classical works of the life and history of the Messenger ﷺ and his age, held in the corpus (OpenITI; no modern works, by design). Character-length is the corpus extent, a rough proxy for depth.
| work | author | d. | extent (chars) |
|---|---|---|---|
| al-Bidayah wa'l-Nihayah | Ibn Kathir | 774 AH | 10,441,844 |
| Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk | al-Tabari | 310 AH | 7,218,965 |
| ibnabihadid | ? | 6,878,673 | |
| Ansab al-Ashraf | al-Baladhuri | 279 AH | 5,794,203 |
| al-Tabaqat al-Kubra | Ibn Sa'd | 230 AH | 4,377,821 |
| Muruj al-Dhahab | al-Mas'udi | 346 AH | 2,088,704 |
| al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah | Ibn Hisham | 218 AH | 1,425,987 |
| Kitab al-Maghazi | al-Waqidi | 207 AH | 1,395,216 |
| al-Rawd al-Unuf | al-Suhayli | 581 AH | 1,229,432 |
| 'Uyun al-Athar | Ibn Sayyid al-Nas | 734 AH | 1,129,782 |
| tusi_amali | ? | 1,094,800 | |
| Tarikh al-Ya'qubi | al-Ya'qubi | 284 AH | 1,049,394 |
| al-Irshad | al-Shaykh al-Mufid | 413 AH | 937,189 |
| tabarsi | ? | 737,450 | |
| al-Shifa | Qadi 'Iyad | 544 AH | 733,882 |
| al-Amali | al-Shaykh al-Mufid | 413 AH | 316,466 |
| Sirat Ibn Ishaq | Ibn Ishaq | 150 AH | 233,380 |
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