Who was Ibn al-Athir?

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Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir (1160–1233) was a historian of Mosul. He wrote al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh, the most comprehensive year-by-year Islamic history from creation to his own time. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas