Editing Sīrah (section)

==Early compilations of sīra==
The following is a list of some of the early Hadith collectors who specialized in collecting and compiling sīrah and maghāzī reports:
* [[ʿUrwa ibn al-Zubayr]] (d. 713). He wrote letters replying to inquiries of the [[Umayyad]] caliphs, [[Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan]] and [[al-Walid I]], involving questions about certain events that happened in the time of the Prophet. Since Abd al-Malik did not appreciate the maghāzī literature, these letters were not written in story form. He is not known to have written any books on the subject.<ref name="EQ" />
* [[Wahb ibn Munabbih]] (d. during 725 to 737). Several books were ascribed to him but none of them are now extant. Some of his works survive as quotations found in works by [[Ibn Ishaq]], [[Ibn Hisham]], [[Ibn Jarir al-Tabari]], and [[Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī]].
* [[Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī]] (d. {{circa|737}}), a central figure in sīrah literature, who collected both ahadith and akhbār. His akhbār also contain chains of transmissions, or [[isnad]]. He was sponsored by the [[Umayyad]] court and asked to write two books, one on [[genealogy]] and another on maghāzī. The first was canceled and the one about maghāzī is either not extant or has never been written.
* [[Musa ibn ʿUqba]], a student of [[Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri|al-Zuhrī]], wrote ''Kitāb al-Maghāzī'', a notebook used to teach his students. The work was lost but a manuscript of Kitab al-maghazi was recently rediscovered. Some of his traditions have been preserved, although their attribution to him is disputed.<ref name="EQ">{{Cite encyclopedia | publisher = Brill Academic Publishers|  pages = 29–49| last = Raven| first = Wim| title = Sīra and the Qurʾān | encyclopedia = [[Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān]] | year = 2006 }}</ref>
* [[Muhammad ibn Ishaq]] (d. 767 or 761), another student of [[Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri|al-Zuhrī]], who collected oral traditions that formed the basis of an important biography of the Prophet. His traditions survived through a number of sources, most notably [[Ibn Hisham]] and [[Ibn Jarir al-Tabari]].