The Prophetic sira

The Prophetic biography is the transmitted history of the life of the Prophet: his birth, his upbringing, his call in Mecca, his migration, his campaigns, and his death, together with what relates to the state of his companions and his family. ^{1 2}

It arose out of the campaigns and the reports transmitted with chains of narration in the works of Ibn Ishaq and his students. It later became a discipline in its own right, recording a history of twenty-three years.

Biography and hadith go together in the transmission of the Prophetic period. See the Prophetic hadith. Further detail needs a further source.