Muhammad: Birth to Ministrygenerally regarded as later literary productions by Western scholars; see
SEI, p. 391 and EI², s.v. "Muhammad," p. 362.
[23] Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 82; Tabari, History, vol. 6, p. 82. Ibn
Sa`d, Classes, I, 1, pp. 146 f. depicts Khadija as seeing the two angels
herself when Muhammad returned to Mecca. Again, there is no mention of
these events in the Qur'an.
[24] Sahih Muslim, vol. 2, p. 444.
[25] SEI, p. 391; Guillaume, Islam, p. 24.
[26] Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 82; Tabari, History, vol. 6, p. 48.
[27] Buhl, Muhammeds, p. 119, n. 30, also sees Muhammad's age at
marriage as another indication of his financial poverty.
[28] The traditional accounts described in n. 23 above, imply that Khadija
chose Muhammad based on the witness of her slave, who told her about
seeing the two angels and about what the monk in Bostra had said. Ibn
Hisham adds a tradition (mistakenly placed after Khadija's wedding), which
claims that Khadija went to her cousin Waraqa to ask about the things her
slave had witnessed concerning Muhammad; (Guillaume, Muhammad, p.
83). Another version of Ibn Ishaq's narrations does not contain this
tradition; see Guillaume, New Light, p. 21. According to tradition, Khadija
had been married twice before; see SEI, p. 231.
[29] Ibn Sa`d, Classes, vol. 1, 1, pp. 147 f; Tabari, History, vol. 6,
pp. 49 f.
[30] This tradition is given through various chains of narrators. Oddly
enough, the versions of this tradition allegedly traced through Ibn Umar (Ibn Sad, Classes, vol. 1, 1, p. 149) and Waqidi (Tabari, History, vol. 6,
p. 49) are deemed to be false by both. The reason for this contradictory
rejection given by both transmitters is that both maintain Khadija's father
had died before the battle of al-Fijar, and that she was married off by an
uncle. Buhl, Muhammeds, p. 119, counters Sprenger's notion that the later