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Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya · Audiobook

Volume 2 — From the Israelite Prophets to Pre-Islamic Arabia

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By Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar ibn Kathīr al-Dimashqī

أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير الدمشقي

Duration: 18h 22m
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Language: English · Arabic

Volume Two narrates the longest historical arc in the work: the Israelite prophetic line after Mūsā — Hizqil, Ṭālūt and Jālūt, Dāwūd and the Zabūr, the unparalleled kingdom of Sulaymān — through Luqmān, the people of the Cave and the Ditch, the kings of Yemen and Damascus, and the long approach to the Quraysh, ending at the doorstep of the birth of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ.

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From Creation to Mūsā

Imam Ibn Kathīr

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First Revelation to Badr

Imam Ibn Kathīr

15h 55m