Esraa Gibreen

“Ibn Hisham found some of the material that Ibn Ishaq included objectionable, such as the story of the Prophet contemplating suicide after his first revelation and the Satanic Verses (see below). He removed such reports as well as the entire first section of the work, which covered the history of the world (from a very Abrahamic point of view) from Adam and Eve until Muhammad’s birth. Ibn Hisham also added his own selection of stories about Muhammad. Nevertheless, modern historians have tried to reconstruct Ibn Ishaq’s original work by locating his reports in other Muslim historical works of the 9th and 10th centuries.”
― Jonathan A.C. Brown, Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction

“لا نستطيع جميعنا أن نكون سادة ولا طاقة لجميع السادة أن يجدوا خدمًا أمناء. إنك لتلفي٣ بين أولئك الخدم غير واحد من البُلْه الخانعين ذوي الركب اللينة يعجبهم رقهم الثقيل فيفنون أعمارهم على شاكلة الحمير التي تُرهق بالأحمال حتى إذا بلغوا من السن عتِيًا طُردوا بضرب السياط طرد المجرمين. غير أنه يوجد أيضًا بين الخدم أناس غير أولئك يظهرون بكل مظاهر الطاعة ويستعيرون كل أشكال الرعاية لكنهم يصونون ضمائرهم لخدمة أنفسهم، ومع ما يبدونه من الامتثال لولاتهم يوجهون مساعيهم لقضاء مآربهم حتى إذا وشَّوا ملابسهم بالذهب حبسوا تكرماتهم على ما اكتسبوه من رفعة القدر. أمثال هؤلاء لهم بعض النفوس”
― ويليام شكسبير, عطيل‬

“Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage,”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Ibn Hisham (d. 833), the Egyptian scholar whose edition of the Prophet’s biography is most famous, concluded that Muhammad married thirteen women in all, consummated his marriage with eleven of them (two he divorced before consummation), and was married to at most nine at one time. He also had two concubines.”
― Jonathan A.C. Brown, Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction