The Employment of Novel for Narrating the Prophet’s Life in Abd al-Hamid Jawdat al-Sahhar’s “al-Hijra”

The Prophet’s Biography narrates the biography of the Prophet and clarifies the details of his life from his birth until his death, so the Muslims cared about this brilliant biography in past and present and also about everything related to the life of this benevolent prophet in various ways and means available to them. This concern led to the great wealth of books written in his birth, life, miracles
The poets and literary authors like other scholars have participated in recording the Prophet’s biography and immortalization of his moral legacy and virtues, so historical composition and poems appeared which are known in the history of Arabic literature as the Prophet’s eulogies in which the poets praise the Prophet’s manners, miracles and military expeditions.
Today a new generation of writers of stories and novels has appeared who are attracted by the Prophet’s biography, so they employed their storytelling and novelistic art in narrating the events of the Prophet’s biography, combining art and history on the one hand and religion and literature on the other. Among these authors is Jawdat al-Sahhar who focused on employing his art for the Prophet’s biography with an Islamic view, writing the biography of the Prophet of compassion in a series of stories entitled “Muhammad the Allah’s messenger and those with him”.
This research aims at studying the employment of novel for the Prophet’s biography in the book “al-Hijra” spotting light on how he had combined the Prophet’s biography with the art of storytelling in this book.