Original sentence: "narrative") are oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (saw).Muslim historians say that Caliph Uthman (the third khalifa, or successor of Muhammad (saw), who had formerly been Muhammad's (saw) secretary), was the first to urge Muslims to write the Qur'an in a fixed form, and to record the hadith.The histories and hadith collections we have today were written down at the start of the Abbasid period, more than a hundred years after Muhammad's (saw) death.This resulted in a list of transmitters, for example "A told me that B told him that Muhammad (saw)  said.sira (biographies of Prophet Muhammad  (pbuh))
Edited sentence: "narrative") are oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.Muslim historians say that Caliph Uthman (the third khalifa, or successor of Muhammad, who had formerly been Muhammad's secretary), was the first to urge Muslims to write the Qur'an in a fixed form, and to record the hadith.The histories and hadith collections we have today were written down at the start of the Abbasid period, more than a hundred years after Muhammad's death.This resulted in a list of transmitters, for example "A told me that B told him that Muhammad  said.sira (biographies of Prophet Muhammad)