Question:
salaam
what is the ahle sunnah wal jumaaths views on ibn Ishaq. I want to purchase his books because of him living in the early time of the Rasul, I wanted to purchase his seerah kitabs but i have heard they are not reliable.which seerah kitab in English is a good book to get from ibn Ishaq.
Answer:
Salam `alaykum,
Imam al-Shafi`i, Ahmad b. Hanbal, Yahya b. Ma`in, al-Bukhari, Muslim and many others all considered Ibn Ishaq by and large reliable.
Hajj Gibril