Life of the Messenger of God
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Life of the Messenger of God is the English rendering of the title of Ibn Ishaq’s seminal early biography of the Prophet Muhammad, known in Arabic as Sirat Rasul Allah.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Life of the Messenger of God canonical | 3 |
| Life of Muhammad | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5629683 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of the Messenger of God Context triple: [Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah, titleMeaning, Life of the Messenger of God]
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A.
Companions of the Prophet
The Companions of the Prophet are the men and women who personally met and followed the Islamic prophet Muhammad, forming the earliest Muslim community and transmitting his teachings.
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B.
The Prophet
The Prophet is a 2014 animated film adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s classic philosophical book, featuring a score composed by Gabriel Yared.
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C.
The Prophetic Faith
The Prophetic Faith is a theological and philosophical work by Martin Buber that explores the nature of biblical prophecy and its enduring spiritual and ethical significance.
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D.
Kitab al-Iman
Kitab al-Iman is the Book of Faith section in Sahih al-Bukhari, compiling prophetic traditions that define and explain the concept and components of Islamic faith (iman).
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E.
Mother of the Believers
Mother of the Believers is an honorific Islamic title given to the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, signifying their revered and maternal status within the Muslim community.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of the Messenger of God Target entity description: Life of the Messenger of God is the English rendering of the title of Ibn Ishaq’s seminal early biography of the Prophet Muhammad, known in Arabic as Sirat Rasul Allah.
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A.
Companions of the Prophet
The Companions of the Prophet are the men and women who personally met and followed the Islamic prophet Muhammad, forming the earliest Muslim community and transmitting his teachings.
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B.
The Prophet
The Prophet is a 2014 animated film adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s classic philosophical book, featuring a score composed by Gabriel Yared.
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C.
The Prophetic Faith
The Prophetic Faith is a theological and philosophical work by Martin Buber that explores the nature of biblical prophecy and its enduring spiritual and ethical significance.
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D.
Kitab al-Iman
Kitab al-Iman is the Book of Faith section in Sahih al-Bukhari, compiling prophetic traditions that define and explain the concept and components of Islamic faith (iman).
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E.
Mother of the Believers
Mother of the Believers is an honorific Islamic title given to the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, signifying their revered and maternal status within the Muslim community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic literature
ⓘ
biographer ⓘ biographical book ⓘ historian ⓘ religious biography ⓘ |
| author |
Ibn Isḥāq
ⓘ
linked to:
Ibn Ishaq
|
| basedOn | oral traditions about Muhammad ⓘ |
| contains |
accounts of battles
ⓘ
accounts of miracles ⓘ descriptions of companions of Muhammad ⓘ genealogies of Muhammad ⓘ
linked to:
Ancestors of Muhammad
reports of revelations ⓘ |
| coversEvent |
Battle of Badr
ⓘ
Battle of Uhud ⓘ Conquest of Mecca ⓘ Farewell Pilgrimage ⓘ Hijra to Medina ⓘ
linked to:
Hijrah of Prophet Muhammad
Treaty of Hudaybiyyah ⓘ death of Muhammad ⓘ pre-Islamic Arabia ⓘ revelation of the Qur’an ⓘ |
| dateWritten | 8th century ⓘ |
| field | early Islamic historiography ⓘ |
| genre |
prophetic biography
ⓘ
sīra ⓘ |
| hasEnglishRenderingOfTitle | Life of the Messenger of God ⓘ |
| hasForm | narrative prose ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Life of the Messenger of God ⓘ |
| importance | one of the earliest extended biographies of Muhammad ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ibn Hishām’s recension of the sīra
ⓘ
linked to:
Ibn Hisham’s recension of the Sira
later sīra literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Muhammad ⓘ |
| narrativeScope | life of Muhammad ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Sīrat Rasūl Allāh
ⓘ
linked to:
Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah
|
| placeOfOrigin | early Islamic world ⓘ |
| preservation |
partly preserved through Ibn Hishām’s redaction
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partly preserved through al-Ṭabarī’s history ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Islam ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Islamic studies
ⓘ
Middle Eastern history ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
| subjectOf | scholarly analysis of early Islamic biography ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed |
6th century Arabia
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7th century Arabia ⓘ |
| usesSource |
eyewitness traditions
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ḥadīth reports ⓘ |
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Subject: Life of the Messenger of God Description of subject: Life of the Messenger of God is the English rendering of the title of Ibn Ishaq’s seminal early biography of the Prophet Muhammad, known in Arabic as Sirat Rasul Allah.
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linked to: Life of the Messenger of God