KnowraEarly Islamic historiographyLinked fromLinked fromThe 11 pages that link to Early Islamic historiography, each with the reason it gives.All 11Related 5Narrower topic 6Al-TabariNarrower topic: Al-Tabari's chronicle became a central repository for this tradition's reports.Abu HanifaNarrower topic: It helps assess how later authors shaped accounts of Abu Hanifa’s life and teachings.Ibn IshaqNarrower topic: His biography belongs to the earliest surviving efforts to narrate Islam’s beginnings.Assassination of UthmanNarrower topic: The assassination is known chiefly through later narratives that require source criticism.Battle of AjnadaynNarrower topic: Accounts of Ajnadayn were recorded retrospectively and require comparison across traditions.Battle of NahrawanRelated: The battle is reconstructed from narratives compiled generations after the event.Hasan al-BasriRelated: It examines how later sources reconstructed Hasan's life and political setting.Abu Ubayda ibn al-JarrahRelated: Accounts of Abu Ubayda’s campaigns and character come through later historical traditions.Abu Dharr al-GhifariRelated: Accounts of Abu Dharr’s departure from Medina vary and require attention to how early histories were transmitted.Muhammad al-BaqirNarrower topic: Later sources shape what can be established about al-Baqir's life and public activity.Muslim conquest of SyriaRelated: Later accounts preserve much of the campaign’s narrative but were written generations afterward.