Martin Lings, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources Review

Overall Rating

A good read for Muslims interested in every little detail.

It professes to be an authentic book, but it cannot recollect everything word by word to be true.

Martin Ling's 'Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources' is definitely a bad start for non Muslims who are interested in prophet Mohammad as it doesn't say much about his teaching, his everyday sacrificial lifestyle and his attitude towards every living being.

I think that it's better to start by knowing his teachings first as well as how he set example for others by doing it first thus letting events described here unveil their significance in that light.

It should be read along side the teachings of prophet Muhammad and his basic lifestyle and nature study in order to get the whole picture of what is called Islam that he has brought.