ABBAN BIN USMAN’S “AL-MAGHAZI” : ITS METHODOLOGY AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Abban Bin Usman is deemed to be the first of all the biographers of the life and mission of the Holy Prophet (SAW). He was the son of the 3rd caliph, Usman Bin Affan’ (RA) and, as such, he had a golden chance of getting more and the most authentic and reliable details relating to the life and Prophetic mission of the Holy Prophet (SAW) and the Ghazawat. Thus he had acquired a good deal of proficiency in the art of ‘Seerat-writing’. He was known as a renowned scholar of Hadith as well as Fiqa among the Tab’een (disciples of the companions of the Holy Prophet (SAW). It is, therefore, acknowledged that the very first book regarding the life of the Holy Prophet (SAW) and the Ghazawat was compiled and composed by him and the same was, later on, narrated by ‘Mugheera Bin Abd-ur-Rahman’.