Sirat Rasul Allah (The Life of God's Messenger) is a biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

These traditions, which he orally dictated to his pupils,[1] are now known collectively as Sīrat Rasūl Allāh (Arabic: سيرة رسول الله "Life of the Messenger of God").

However, much of the original text was copied over into a work of his own by Ibn Hisham (Basra; Fustat, died 833 AD, 218 AH).

In addition, Guillaume (1955), p. xxxi points out that Ibn Hisham's version omits various narratives in the text which were given by al-Tabari in his History.

[e] Here, Ibn Ishaq's introductory chapters describe pre-Islamic Arabia, before he then commences with the narratives surrounding the life of Muhammad (in Guillaume (1955), pp. 109–690).