AL-WAQIDI’S “AL-MAGHAZI” ITS METHODOLOGY AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Muhammad bin Umar Al-Waqidi was a famous hadith scholar, historian and a writer of Prophetic biography (Seerat). His extraordinary memory and profound knowledge were appreciated and recognized by all. As a hadith scholar, he was regarded as rejected ( Matrook) and unreliable (Za’eef). But he was considered as a prodigious scholar of prophetic biography (Seerat) and military expeditions (Maghazi). The succeeding generation of scholars benefited form his subtle erudition. The following research paper sheds light on Waqidi’s methodology as followed in his “ Kitab-ul- Maghazi”.