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Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya · Audiobook

Volume 3 — The Sīrah: From the First Revelation to Badr

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

أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير الدمشقي

Duration: 15h 55m
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Language: English · Arabic

Volume Three opens the Sīrah proper: the first revelation in the cave of Ḥirāʾ, the manner of waḥy, the earliest Muslims, the persecution in Mecca, the hijrah to Medina, the establishment of the ummah, and the Battle of Badr in Year 2 — the first open confrontation between the new community and Quraysh, narrated with Ibn Kathīr's characteristic care for the chains.

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