Compiled in the fourteenth century by a prominent Syrian scholar, this four volume-set, translated in English, is a full examination, in chronological order, of the background, life and mission of the Prophet Muhammad.
Good story, yet too much information about the discourses of certain hadithes themselves, thus making a beginner quite confused of following the story.
I only read a section of Volume 3, on the Year 3 in the Islamic calendar. It shows the ways in which Muhammad and his followers saught to found what they felt to be a just, egalitarian, and inquisitive society and culture through a combination of persuasion and force, much like the anti-capitalist militants of the twentieth century.
أعظم وأطهر وأشرف سيرة لأطهر وأرقى وأشرف الخلق ، الحبيب المسطفى نبينا ورسولنا الصادقالأمين سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم . واللهِ ازددتُ شوقاً للقائك يا رسول الله! اللهمَإني أسألكأن ترحمني وتغفر لي وأن تعفُ عني وترضى عني وتجمعني بالحبيب المسطف صلى الله عليه وسلم . اللهمَ فاجعله لقاءً قريباً