Abstract
Allah Almighty has kept many sources to save his eternal message, the golden words of his prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and his holy biography in the writings of different scholars. This shows the importance of our sacred heritage that includes the biography of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم .These hand-written books (manuscripts) consist of the exegesis of Qur’ān, Jurisprudence, Principles of Exegesis of Qur’ān and Jurisprudence, morphology, syntactic and many other sciences related to Arabic language and literature. The researcher has evaluated the manuscripts about the biography of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم written in different universities of Pakistan during MA, MPhil, and PhD in the 20th century. The research methodology followed in the research is descriptive. Each understudy manuscript is considered from different aspects that include different features of the work done, i.e. language of the manuscripts, details of the original text, references of Aḥādīth, pattern of footnotes, primary and secondary sources etc. The article is divided into three main sections in the following way: First deals with Islamic Arabic Manuscripts, Second are Manuscripts in Pakistani Libraries and third are evaluated Manuscripts about Sīrah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم .The research would highlight value of the Manuscripts and the critical analysis of the mistakes found in Manuscripts and it would certainly improve their language, and research pattern.
Keyword(s)
Manuscripts, Biography of Prophet, thesis research, Pakistan