Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam
respected the Kaba; Andrae, Mohammed, p. 25. Some Arab Christians are even said to have participated in the pilgrimage to the Ka
ba; Buhl,
Muhammeds, p. 66; Andrae, Ursprung, p. 39; Mohammed, p. 25.
[206] Some jinn are said to have heard Muhammad praying, and as a result
are said to have believed the Qur'an. Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 192 f; Ibn
Sa`d, Classes, vol. 1, 1, pp. 243 f; Tabari, History, vol. 6, pp. 117 f; Sahih
Bukhari, vol. 6, pp. 415 f; Sahih Muslim, vol. 1, pp. 243 f; Nöldeke and
Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, pp. 132 f.
[207] Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 527 f; Ibn Sa`d, Classes, vol. 1, 1,
p. 240; Tabari, History, vol. 9, p. 133.
[208] Umm Habiba, the former wife of `Ubaydullah, and Umm Salama are
said to have seen pictures in an Abyssinian church named "Mariya": Sahih
Bukhari, vol. 1, p. 251; vol. 2, p. 237; vol. 5, p. 136; Sahih Muslim, vol. 1,
p. 268. There was a church of St. Mary at Axum; see EI², s.v. "al-Nadja-
shi," p. 863 (which cites Muir's Life of Mohammed, p. 490).
[209] Cf. Andrae, Mohammed, p. 48.
[210] Irenaeus, "Against Heresies," book 5, ch. 1, Ante-Nicene Fathers,
vol. 1, p. 527.
[211] Augustine, "Reply to Faustus the Manichaean," book 11, part 3,
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4, p. 179.
[212] The Gospel of the Book of Mary as well as the Infancy Gospel are
thought to have been used by Gnostics; cf. Lost Books, pp. 17, 38. See
Appendix D, pp. 370 f.