مقدمة باللغة الإنجليزية:

Foreword

The King Fahad Complex (Madinah) is known for the many prestigious works it has commissioned over the years. It has added to its achievements by offering this unique opportunity to an assembly of scholars and researchers to present the fruit of their researches and examinations on the Sayings, Practices and Seerah of the Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) . The paper in hand is entitled ‘صلى الله عليه وسلم رضي الله عنهibliography on Hadith and Sunnah Writings in صلى الله عليه وسلمnglish’ and is the humble contribution by the author to this august Conference.

I would never have dreamed on embarking on such an enormous task had I not been given the impetus by the Conference organisers. I thank صلى الله عليه وسلمllah صلى الله عليه وسلمlmighty that the journey which began by browsing through the bookshelves of the library of the Islamic Cultural Centre (London) in March 2003, and which took me to a number of countries in the pursuit of more information, has finally reached its destination. With only a three-month time limit in which this project had to be completed, my quest took me to the library of the International Islamic University of Islamabad (Pakistan) , various bookshelves on the Mall in Lahore, the small صلى الله عليه وسلمnglish section of books in the عز وجلa،wa office in رضي الله عنهahrain, the library of the King صلى الله عليه وسلمbdul صلى الله عليه وسلمziz University in Jeddah, and finally the library of the Islamic Foundation in Leicester (UK) .

I have based the greater part of my work on two excellent sources, both printed in 1980/81. They are: