Early Days: Stories of the Beginning of Creation & the Early Prophet Adam to Yoonus

البداية والنهاية

by Ibn Kathir, ابن كثير, Darussalam (Translator)

Darussalam is proud to present the abridged English translation of the classic work, Al-Bidayah wan Nihayah. This book is the first part from this enormous work. It starts by describing the beginning of creation — from the Throne and the Kursi, the Universe and all that is in it, such as the angels, the Jinn and humans. This book continues to early Prophet Adam (Aadam) upto Prophet Yunus/Younus (A). Al-Bidayah wan Nihayah (The Beginning and The End) by the renowned scholar Abu Al-Fida, 'Imad ad-Deen Isma'eel bin 'Umar bin Katheer (Imam Ibn Kathir), is considered one of the most authoritative sources on Islamic history. A unique feature of the book is that it not only deals with past events, but also talks about future events mentioned by Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) until the Day of Judgment.

Genres: Islam, Religion, Nonfiction, History

408 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

ابن كثير
Abu Al-Fida' Isma'il Ibn Kathir Al-Dimashqi

Reviews

[catherine]

A sublime, and valuable exegesis of the first creation to Jonah, peace be upon him, taken from Islamic sources. The effort that the author had put into his research overwhelms me, and I believe that this is only an abridge English version of just part of the original work called Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah.

At the time of writing, I have not yet completed reading this book, however, but I am blown away with the amount I am learning from this book so far that I flet inclined to leave a comment regarding it.

The content, in this rare case, overweighs my inherent dislike for carelessness of proofreading. (Darussalam never seem to proofread anything they publish) Ignoring inconsistencies of spaces between full-stops and quotation marks, here are a few of the mistakes I have noticed so far into the book:

For given
sates [states]
"...other lands of their" [theirs]
"thunder,."

[Sadman]

A very poorly translated version of an otherwise insightful work from Ibn Kathir.

[Eman Omar]

An inimitable treasure!

[UmmSolodeen]

Very good book. It has a lot of information.