Prophethood and the Prophets

From the Preface:

This book is composed of discourses on the History of the Prophets (May the peace and blessing of Allah be on all of them) that I delivered to the students in the Department of History in the College of Shari’ah and Islamic Studies at the university of Umm al-Qurrah in Makkah al-Mukarramah. I maintained brevity and selected the narrations carefully, taking only the authentic. First, I cited the Book of Allah “which falsehood does not approach either from the back or the front' as proof and then relied On authentic narrations from the sayings of the Master of the Prophets. Last, I returned to the books of history and selected the narrations that agree with the Book and Sunnah and do not contradict logic. I discarded the Jewish folktales that are at variance with sound logic and religion.

To make what i have collected more accessible, I decided to collect the discourses, thereby fulfilling the need to know the lives of the prophets, their message, their system of guidance, and how they moved the nations and tribes from the darkness of ignorance and error into the light of guidance and faith.