Muhammad: Victory and Death[256] Some maintain that this correspondence occurred after Muhammad's
farewell pilgrimage; Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 649; Tabari, History, vol.
9, pp. 106 f.
[257] Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, pp. 227 f.
[258] This verse was said to have been revealed during Muhammad's
farewell pilgrimage in 10 AH; Sahih Bukhari, vol. 6, p. 103; Sahih Muslim,
vol. 4, p. 1551.
[259] See Appendix D, p. 390.
[260] See p. 257, above.
[261] Cf. ECMD, p. 451.
[262] And not the Qur'an.
[263] Cf. Sahih Bukhari, vol. 6, p. 102; ECMD, p. 499.
[264] This remark is similar to statements made concerning Muhammad;
cf. Qur'an 21:3, 7f; 25:8f, 22.
[265] See p. 3, n. 32, above.
[266] Sahih Bukhari, vol. 9, p. 290; Sahih Muslim, vol. 4, p. 1257.
[267] See p. 177, n. 148.
[268] See Appendix D, p. 390.
[269] It may have been intended that Muslims celebrate this feast, not
because of Jesus' resurrection, but because of this distorted version of the
Eucharist.
[270] See Appendix D, p. 390.
[271] Jeffery, Vocabulary, p. 135.
[272] Ibid., p. 165.