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Ibn Hisham
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “lost and is now only known in the recension of ibn hisham”. Today it says “a 9th-century abbasid historian and scholar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Muslim scholar and historian (died 833)”. It now reads “Muslim scholar and historian (died 833) Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī ( ; died 7 May 833), known simply as”.
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Ibn Hisham, Abu Muhammad Abd al-Malik (d. 834 ) edited the biography of Muhammad written by Ibn Ishaq .1 Ibn Ishaq's work is lost and is now only known in the recension of Ibn Hisham. Ibn Hisham was born in Egypt , studied in Kufa but lived afterwards in Egypt, where he gained a name as a grammarian and student of language and history.2 His family was of Himyarite origin and he also wrote a work on South Arabian antiquities, Kitab al-Tijan . v t e3
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “lost and is now only known in the recension of ibn hisham”. Today it says “a 9th-century abbasid historian and scholar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Muslim scholar and historian (died 833)”. It now reads “Muslim scholar and historian (died 833) Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī ( ; died 7 May 833), known simply as”. Read the current article and compare.
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lost and is now only known in the recension of ibn hisham
Now
a 9th-century abbasid historian and scholar
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