Men around the Messenger by Khalid Muhammad Khalid

By Khalid Muhammad Khalid, Translated by Mohamed Mahdi Al-Sharif, Islamic Book Trust, 516 pages

This book is a translation based on Khalid Muhammad Khalid’s celebrated work in Arabic, Rijal Hawla al-Rasul. The sixty-four companions presented here are representative of that unique generation, a generation without parallel in history. They come from all walks of life and character. These are stories of real people which can be historically verified. These stories will touch the souls of the believers, for they will find in them yet another proof of that conviction that fills their hearts, though it may be denied and its signs effaced by wielders of power in the Muslim lands through treachery and cowardice.

About the author:

Khalid Muhammad Khalid (b. 1920) is an Egyptian writer. Initially supported secularly based social justice and reform, but by the 1980s was more concerned with Islamic authenticity. Believes that Islam has both a civil mission and a religious one and that the state should apply Islamic principles. Maintains that an Islamic state aims at liberty and opposes despotism. Interprets the Quranic concept of shura (consultation) as a parliamentary democracy.