Constitution of Medina

Anonymous / tradition (agreement attributed to Muhammad) · c. 622-627, preserved in later biography · Medina (Saudi Arabia) · law

composition: contestedauthorship: traditional

witness: quoted in Ibn Ishaq's biography as transmitted by Ibn Hisham, over a century later

An agreement binding the emigrants, the Medinan clans and named Jewish groups into one community for defence and arbitration, preserved only through eighth-century biography.