The Kitāb futūḥ al-Shām of al-Qudāmi as a Case Study for the Transmission of Traditions About the Conquest of Syria

Mazor attempts to establish the reliability of the historical isnad, and by doing so, to demonstrate that Islamic historiographical tradition indeed existed from the inception of Islam. The present research is based on an examination of the earliest links of the isnads in a number of accounts dealing with the conquest of Syria futuh al-Sham) included in a book compiled by 'Abd Allah Ibn Muhammad Ibn Rabi'a al-Qudami, a scholar who lived in the second half of the second/eighth century and died in the first half of the third/ninth century.