Ibn Sa'd

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Iraqi scholar Medieval era
Name:	Muhammad ibn Sa'd
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Death:	320 AH ^[1]
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Influences:	Al-Waqidi^{[citation needed]}
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Ibn Sa'd (Arabic: ابن سعد‎) (d 320 AH) ^[1] OR (168/784—230/845)^[2] OR (died 852 CE ^[3]) was a Sunni Muslim scholar of Islam.

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Abu Abdillah Muhammad ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi ^[2]^[1]

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Muhammad ibn Saad (or Ibn Sa`d) was an Arabic scholar who lived in Baghdad in the 9th century. He is said to have died at the age of 62 in Baghdad on Sunday the 4th Jumada al-Akhira, 236 AH, and was buried in the cemetery of the Syrian gate. He was the author of the book "Kitab at-Tabaqat".

Kitab at-Tabaqat is a compendium of biographical information about famous Islamic personalities. It is eight books long.

Books 1 and 2 contain a sirat of Muhammad.
Books 3 and 4 contain biographic notices of companions of the prophet Muhammed.
Books 5, 6 and 7 contain biographic notices of later Islamic scholars.
Book 8 contains biographic notices of Islamic women.

Volumes 5, 7 and 8 have been lately translated by Aisha Bewley and published under the titles of "Men of Madina" and "Women of Madina" (even though Ibn Saad's interests extended far beyond Madina).

Ibn Saad's authorship of this work is attested in a postscript to the book added by a later writer. In this notice he is described as a "client of al-Husayn ibn `Abdullah of the `Abbasid family". Muhammad Ibn Sa'ad