The Women of Madina : Kitab at-Tabaqat al-Kabir Volume VIII - 8 (2 New edition)

The KITAB AT-TABAQAT AL-KABIR by Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sa'd is one of the most important and earliest survivingcollections of biographical details of the early Muslims, spanning just over the first two centuries of Islam.

The reader is given a vivid insight into the lives of the early Muslims and how extraordinary they were.

This is an abridged translation of Volume VIII, which deals exclusively with the women who met the Prophet (saas) or transmitted from him. AISHA ABDARRAHMAN AT-TURJUMANA BEWLEY is one of today's most prolific and reliable translators of classical works from Arabic into English.