Muhammad: Meccan Opposition[157] Ibid. pp. 155 f; see n. 48, above.
[158] Ibid. p. 155.
[159] Ibid. pp. 157 f.
[160] Cf. SEI, p. 260.
[161] This boycott, whose regulations were allegedly written in a
document, is said to have prevented intermarriage and trade with the
Hashimites and the Muttalib; Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 159 f; Ibn Sa`d,
Classes, vol. 1, 1,
pp. 240 f; Tabari, History, vol. 6, pp. 105 f.
[162] Ibn Sa`d, Classes, vol. 1, 1, p. 241.
[163] Buhl, Muhammeds, pp. 176 f.
[164] Ibid. p. 176.
[165] An alleged murder attempt on Muhammad: Ibn Sad, Classes, vol. 1, 1, p. 241;Ali worked for a Jew in Mecca: Guillaume, New Light, p. 43 (cf.
Andrae, Mohammed, pp. 139 f, where a version of this tradition is thought
to have been set in Medina rather than Mecca); Attempts were made to
smuggle food: Tabari, History, vol. 6, p. 106.
[166] Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 161 f.
[167] Guillaume, New Light, pp. 38 f; Ibn Sa`d, Classes, vol. 1, 1, pp. 237
f; Tabari, History, vol. 6, pp. 107 f.
[168] "mosque" - (Tabari, History, vol. 6, p. 109); "large gathering"(Ibid.
p. 111); "assembly near the Kaba" - (Ibn Sad, Classes, vol. 1, 1, p. 237;
location not described in Guillaume, New Light, pp. 38 f. The objection to
the use of the word "mosque" (vj ̄ = "place of prayer") in this tradition
as being incompatible with the Meccan setting (cf. EI², s.v. "Kur'an," p.
404) is not to be seen as serious, since the Ka`ba seems to have been a place
of prayer for Meccan Muslims at the time, and this term (which is only
found in one of Tabari's traditions) was also used in other hadith about