:s1: A superb addendum to Martin Lings' acknowledged Sira masterpiece: http://www.mereislam.info/articles/A-Critical-Reading-of-Lings'-'Muhammad'-SAWS.pdf Shaykh GF Haddad scholarly details and corrects the few places in the biography where Dr. Lings' made some errors (from the traditional Sunni perspective. Shaykh Hamza discusses most of these too in his audio version of the Sira.)