The Women of Madina

Kitat at-Tabaqat al-Kabir Volume VIII

Author: Muhammad Ibn Sa'd

Translator: Aisha Bewley

The Kitab at-Tabaqat al-Kabir by Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sa‘d is one of the most important and earliest surviving collections 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 abridged translation of Volume VIII deals exclusively with the women who met the Prophet r 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.