За пастирския период в живота на пророка Мухаммад
The Shepherd Period in the Life of the Prophet Muhammad

Summary/Abstract: This article is an isnād-analytical study of the early traditions presenting the Prophet Muhammad as a shepherd during the period following his first trip to Syria in around AD 582. Two main versions of the narrative can be distilled out of the existing early sources. The first of them may be ascribed to Ibn Šihāb az-Zuhrī. This version had initially been based on a short prophetic dictum “There was no prophet but a shepherd”. Later authors seemingly augmented the tradition with a comment that Muhammad had pastured his relatives’ sheep, thus eliminating the possibility of a metaphorical understanding of the hadīt. The second version compares Muhammad with Dāwūd and Mūsā, while also emphasizing that he became prophet in a place near Mecca named Ağyād. The narrative had probably been circulated by the early Kufan traditionist Abū Isā as-Sābi‘ī, not least with the aim to emphasize on Ağyād as the topos of the first revelation.

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