When al-Hilal, a small Jordanian weekly, published accounts, based on Bukhari, of the Prophet's sex-life, the result was shock and horror.

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These narrators, most notable among them, for instance, are Ibn Ishaq (d. 761), Bukhari (d.870), Muslim (d. 875) and al-Baladhuri (d. c.892), provided the raw material for those who came later and sought to systematize the historical record and provide commentaries of their own on the earliest developments of Arab-Muslim history and Islamic civilization.

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