in full Mu 1E25; ammad ibn Is 1E25; 0101; q ibn Yas 0101; r ibn Khiy 0101; r
born 0441; 704, Medina, Arabia
died 767, Baghdad
Arab biographer of Muhammad .
His father and two uncles collected and transmitted information about Muhammad in Medina, and Ibn Is 1E25; 0101; q soon became an authority on the Prophet's military campaigns ( magh 0101; z 012B; ). He studied in Alexandria and subsequently moved to Iraq, where he met many people who provided him with information for his biography, which became the most popular biography of Muhammad in the Muslim world but which survives only in the recension by Ibn Hish 0101; m.