Muhammad
historical figure · 12 works · 39 mentions · 90 anchored passages
the Prophet · Muḥammad · النبي · the Messenger of God · النبى · محمد · رسول الله · سيدنا محمد · our master Muḥammad · النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم
spoken of as
2 expressionsMuḥammad the Prophet2 mentions
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq (Arabic) · Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn (Arabic)
and we call down blessing and peace upon His Messenger, the chosen one from among the righteous, the elect from among the best, possessed of great character (akhlāq) and noble lineage:
Muḥammad the vizier, patron of the book1 mention
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq (Arabic)
and by composing it I have served the library of the most great patron, master of the necks of the nations, lord of the viziers of the East and of China, quintessence of the sultan of sultans, deliverer of creation from destruction, holder of the chancery of the realms, succour of mankind, rain-shower of liberality, banner of guidance:
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
The Prophet of Islam, quoted four times in the introduction with the eulogy formula, as the highest authority for the maxims on decree, the upright vizier, pardon, and inward admonition.
It is related of the Prophet — may God bless him and give him peace — that he said:
It is related of the Prophet — may God bless him and give him peace — that he said:
It is related of the Prophet — may God bless him and give him peace — that he said:
Risālat al-Wāridāt
The Prophet Muḥammad, invoked in the doxology not merely as messenger but as aḥkam ḥukamāʼ al-ʻālam, the wisest of the world's sages, and as the seal of the great masters of divine science — a framing that annexes prophecy to the philosophical project the treatise is about to pursue.
and blessing and peace upon our Prophet, the wisest of the world's sages and the seal of the great masters of divine science (*al-ilāhiyyūn*), our lord Muḥammad, and upon his family and his Companions.
This degree is mentioned often upon the divine tongues, and especially upon the tongue of our Prophet — God bless him and grant him peace — for it is reported that he saw him, and he had filled the horizon.
and in the words of the divine Sage — God bless him and grant him peace — “The first thing God Most High created was the Intellect.
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The Prophet of Islam, blessed in the prologue as the prophet whose coming was announced in earlier sound scriptures, the most eloquent of speakers, opener of the gates of good and a lamp in the darkness of unbelief.
And blessing upon our master Muḥammad, whose sending was announced in the sound books, who spoke with the most eloquent of words;
and when the inference is from the speech of God, exalted be He, and the report of the Messenger of God, the road is sound.
this too is a sound road, because it is inferred from the Book of God and drawn out from the speech of the Messenger of God.
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The Prophet of Islam, invoked in the preface's benediction and cited for the saying that he is the city of knowledge and ʻAlī its gate.
at one time I would resolve to write it on ascertaining the quiddity of knowledge, on account of the aptness of the Prophet's saying, peace be upon him, 'I am the city of knowledge and ʻAlī is its gate';
So when you have believed that a reality appears in one abode in an accidental, dependent form and in another in an independent form, make that a familiarizing for yourself, by which you may break the force of your temperament’s recoiling from it at the outset of reflection — until certainty comes to you, and you ascend to the clear horizon, and see with the eye of direct vision what exposition is …
and blessing and peace be upon our master Muḥammad and his household and his companions and his followers and those who love him;
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The Prophet of Islam, invoked here only as a date: the age before which father-right is said to have been recently introduced among the Arabs.
that father-right is a thing newly brought in, whose introduction among the Arabs did not much precede the age of the Prophet;
And if we suppose it to hold good, and that the genealogists devised these genealogies at the beginning of Islam for the sake of the stipend, then how were those tribes content whom the genealogists set far from the Prophetic line, so that their stipend was little or their rights weak?
If such is the case with the ancient legends of the Arabs, what then of their reports set down in books, upon which the genealogists of the first age of Islam were agreed — the transmitters of that day accepting no narration until it had been verified by a sound chain of authority, from their habit of verifying the Prophetic traditions and the like of the religious reports in that age?
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Prophet of Islam, presented as the single infallible terminus of the isnād and as the one authority Mālik exempted from the rule that every man's word may be taken or left.
“Every man's word is taken and left, save the occupant of this grave, God bless him and grant him peace.
between him and God Most High stood one only, an infallible from an infallible — the lord of mankind, from Jibrīl, from God, mighty and majestic.
The Ḥanafī jurists are men of exactitude and of legal reasoning (*raʼy*) and of quick intelligence, and good is to be looked for from such men — provided they are kept clear of contrivance and of the legal devices (*ḥiyal*) for usury and for voiding the alms-tax, (1) and of pecking at the prayer, and of acting upon those cases in which they hear the prophetic texts run against them.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The Prophet of Islam, referred to in the plan of the first aim as the one at whose mission the jinn are transmitted to have cried out.
(8) What has been transmitted of their crying out at the mission of Muḥammad.
The imām al-Māwardī related in Aʻlām al-nubuwwah what the men of the sīrah report of the jinn's calling out concerning the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, before his mission, and that it was among the signs of his prophethood, proceeding from inspiration.
al-Walīd, when he demolished al-ʻUzzā, was pelted by it with sparks until most of his thigh was burned, until the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, said a protective charm over him.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The Prophet of Islam, presented as the perfect man and the model whose character the reader is to imitate.
our lord and master Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, whose body appeared in Makkah and was hidden away in al-Madīnah, and whose noble name came to be present throughout the world;
If you would love to see him and long to look upon him, then study the Muḥammadan biography (al-sīrah al-Muḥammadīyah) and call those attributes to mind in the person of our lord and master Muḥammad, God bless him and grant him peace:
the believers, in their mutual love and mercy and sympathy, are like the body — when one member of it suffers, the rest of the body is summoned to it with fever and sleeplessness.
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The vizier to whom the epitome is dedicated, named Muḥammad and titled lord of the viziers of the East and of China; distinct from the Prophet of the same name blessed earlier.
and by composing it I have served the library of the most great patron, master of the necks of the nations, lord of the viziers of the East and of China, quintessence of the sultan of sultans, deliverer of creation from destruction, holder of the chancery of the realms, succour of mankind, rain-shower of liberality, banner of guidance:
And although God has given him, in the very root of his native constitution (fiṭrah), such soundness of judgement as dispenses him from seeking any supply, so that he stands in no need of any completing of his readiness in order to acquire the noble traits of character;
A vizier who of all men has the first claim upon exaltation — so the Lord of the Throne has granted him of bounty all that best became him.
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The Prophet of Islam, invoked in the opening blessing together with his household and named as the light by which the Arabian peninsula shone before the appearance of Islam.
The Arabian peninsula shone with the light of the Arabian Prophet — God bless him and his household and give them peace — and Islam appeared, its foundation the profession of the unity of the True Originator and the declaring of Him free of every incapacity and defect.
and blessing and peace be upon the whole body of the prophets and messengers, and above all upon Muḥammad and his household, the good and the pure.
the spirit is of the affair of my Lord, and you have not been given of knowledge save a little.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The Prophet of Islam, quoted as the source of a tradition on intention and deed, and named as one who, like the scholar and the Companion, does not know the unseen.
And the truthful Messenger, God's blessing be upon him and upon his family, said, in a noble tradition mentioned by our master the Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may God ennoble his face, in a sermon of his:
And likewise everyone who believes that none knows the unseen but God judges without hesitation that man does not know the unseen — neither the scholar, nor the Companion, nor the Prophet
Common Sense
Invoked analogically as an example of using conveniently timed religious claims to impose a doctrine on the masses
but as few or no records were extant in those days, and traditionary history stuff'd with fables, it was very easy after the lapse of a few generations, to trump up some superstitious tale conveniently timed, Mahomet like, to cram hereditary right down the throats of the vulgar.