This is a chronological listing of biographies of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, from the earliest traditional writers to modern times.
The literature is extensive: in the Urdu language alone, a scholar from Pakistan in 2024 came up with a bibliography of more than 10,000 titles counting multivolume works as a single book and without taking into account articles, short essays or unpublished manuscripts, with the author also precising that the literature in Arabic is even more important.
[1] The following is a list of the earliest known Hadith collectors who specialized in collecting Sīra and Maghāzī reports.